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memory illusion
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false but subjectively compelling memory
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iconic memory
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implicated in eidetic memory
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short term memory
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working memory- processes conscious info for long term storage
duration is no longer than 20 seconds |
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retroactive inhibition
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new info blocks old
longtime italian speaker having difficulty with italian after learning french |
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proactive inhibition
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old info blocks new
difficulty learning new text system on cell phone because of old text system |
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strategies for short term memory
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chunking
rehearsal maintenance rehearsal- repeating original form elaborative rehearsal- link them in some meaningful way ( visualize, understand relationship) |
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primacy effect
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remember early words better
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recency effect
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remember later words better
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Von Restoroff effect
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remmmembre unique/ distinctive words better
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episodic memory
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an event where one was present
5th birthday |
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semantic memory
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memory of generalized knowledge
42nd president of the USA |
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priming
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recalling info without doing it deliberately (not conscious effort; unintentional)
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procedural
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memory of how something is done
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3 stages of memory
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encoding
storage retrieval |
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encoding in memory
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card catalog entry in library
WITHOUT ENCODING, THERE CAN BE NO STORAGE OR RETRIEVAL |
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storage
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process of keeping info in memory
properly shelving book in collection schema: organized knowledge structure |
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retrieval
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reactivation or reconstruction of experiences from memory stores
retrieving the correct book from shelf |
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3 types of retrieval
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recall
recognition relearning |
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recall
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generating previously remembered info
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recognition
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selecting previously remembered info from an array of options based on familiarity e
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context dependent learning
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superior retrieval when external context matches context of original memories
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state dependent learning
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superior recall when internal state of the organism is the same as when the info was encoded
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biological bases of memory
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memories are formed as new synapses are formed
not stored in one location spread out throughout brain biological bases of memory |
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long term potentiation
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improves communicattion at the synapses
neurons that fire together, wire together |
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anterograde
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loss of events that occurred after the accident
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retrograde
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loss of events that occurred before the accident
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generalized
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very very rare and recovery is gradual
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