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35 Cards in this Set
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What is Memory
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Ability to store and retrieve information
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What are the 3 Storage Systems of Memory
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-Sensory
-Short-term -Long-term |
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What does Sensory Memory involve?
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very temporary but
-capacity is very large -hard to measure, -decays quickly -Separate Visual and Auditory |
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What is Short-term memory?
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-Working Memory
-Info consciously processed -Temporary -Displaced by new info |
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What does it mean if your memory is 'Temporary'
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if not used or rehearsed it
fades in 15-20 secs |
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What is Encoding?
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The Level of processesing STM
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The type of Long Term memory that can be described as Declarative memory.
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Explicit Memory
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What is Explicit memory?
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-Things that you consciously "know," and can state as a fact.
-Your General knowledge and personal expierience |
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What is Implicit memory?
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-Skills
-Conditioned responses |
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Where are the two types of LTM (Explicit and Implicit) located in the brain?
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Explicit-Cortex
Implicit-Cerebellum |
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What is Anterograde Ammesia?
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memory loss following a head trauma
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What is Retrograde Amnesia?
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forgetting previously encoded info.
-Forgetting things you already know -Cant use short term memory |
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What is Reconstructed Memory?
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Memories we create ourself because we believe it really happened, or are told you did it but you really didnt.
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Sensory memory
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The first stage of memory which holds an exact record of incoming information for a few seconds or less.
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Is it more difficult to do more than one thing in STM or LTM?
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STM because STM can only handle small amounts of information at one time.
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Where do we do most of our thinking?
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Working Memory, which is a metal process within your STM.
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What holds information for a few seconds or less?
Sensory Memory, STM, LTM |
Sensory Memory
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What stores and Icon or Echo?
Sensory Memory, STM, LTM |
Sensory Memory
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STM is improved by interruption, or interference because attention is more focused at such times.
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False, STM is better without interruption or interference.
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What is Short terms "Magic Number?"
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about 7
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What are information "Chunks?"
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information that is grouped together with like things.
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LTM memory falls into two categories called?
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Procedural Memory (Skilled Memory)
Declarative Memory (Fact Memory) |
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What is Semantic Memory?
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Our Basic knowledge
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Episodic Memories are about what?
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What, Where, When of our lives
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What is Reintegrative Memories?
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Memories that are reconstructed or expanded by starting with one memory and then following chains of association to other related memories.
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Information is best transferred from STM to LTM when a person engages in?
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Elaborative Rehearsal- rehearsal that links new information with exsisting memories and knowledge.
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Constructive processing is often responsible for creating pseudo-memories? T or F
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true
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Electrical stimulation of the brain has shown conclusively that all memories are stored permanently but not all memories can be retrieved?
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false
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Memories elicited under hypnosis are more vivid complete and reliable than normal?
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False
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The Existence of redintegrative memories is best explained by ________ models of memory?
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Semantic Memory
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What is "Tip-of the Tongue State" (TOT)
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the feeling that a memory is available but not quite retrievable
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What are the Three memory tasks?
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Recall, Recognition and relearning
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What is Recognition Memory?
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preiviously learned material
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What is recall?
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To supply or reproduce memorized information with a minimum of external cues
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what is relearning?
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learning again something that was previously learned
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