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28 Cards in this Set
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What is memory? 3 parts
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Encoding, storage, retrieval
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Atkinson-Shiffrin Model
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Memory involves a sequences of three stages for storing memories
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Sensory Memory
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hold information in its original form only for an instant
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What does the Sterling experiment tell us?
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We can storge 9-12 items in sensory memory.
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Short term memory
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limited capacity, 30 seconds.
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How many items can we hold in short term memory?
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7+/-2
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Chunking
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grouping units into higher order units that can be remembered
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Rehearsal
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repetition of information
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maintanence rehearsal
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repeating words over and over again (phone numbers)
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elaboritive rehearsal
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reflect mindfully on the words and their means as one repeats them
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Shallow Memory
Intermediate Memory Deep Level Memory |
Sensory of physical features
Given a label Processed semantically, in terms of meaning |
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Long term memory
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unlimited capacity, permanent
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Explicit memories (declarative)
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Conscious recollection of information such as specific facts or events
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Types of explicit
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episodic: retention of info about life's happenings
semantic: general knowledge of the world |
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Implicit Memories
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Behavior is affected by prior experience without that experience being consciously recollected
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Types of implicit (3)
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procedural: memory for skills that often don't require direct attention
incidental:unplanned learning priming: exposure to events that influence furuture behavioral, emotional/cognitive repsosnes |
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Serial Position Curve
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Remember the items on the beginning and end of a list
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Recognition Task
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Provide question to help remember
"which of these items were in the first list?" |
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To recall a memory
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memory task without cues(Essay)
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Recognition of memory
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memory task with cues (multiple choice)
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State dependent theory
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the ability to recall information in the same environment as you learned it.
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Context Dependent Learning
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scuba divers:
land/land, water/water, land/water, water/land |
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Encoding failure
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info never makes it to storage
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Retrieval failure
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failure to retrieve info from long-term memory
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Schacther's Cognitive Arousal Theory
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subjects related ANS arousals to other emotions once real trigger is extinct.
single males walking over bridge to attractive researcher |
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Cognitive Mediational THeory
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Stimulus-->Emotion based on appraisal-->bodily response
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What did Joseph LeDoux discover about fear?
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info goes to thalamus, half goes directly to amyglada, half goes to visiual cortex then amyglada
Snake on ground |
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Facial Feedback Hypothesis
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Can changing your own facial expressions change the way you feel?
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