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16 Cards in this Set
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What is the 3 stage model of memory?
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-Sensory Memory
-Short Term Memory (STM) -Long Term Memory (LTM) |
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Short Term Memory
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-Magic Number is 7 (+/-) 2
-Usually remember 5-9 pieces of info. |
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3 types of Long Term Memory
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-Procedural
-Semantic -Episodic |
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Remembering how to do something
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Procedural LTM
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-Remembering what something is.
-Declarative memory. -Holds meaning |
Semantic LTM
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Remembering a specific event/experience
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Episodic LTM
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3 methods to test the retrieving LTM
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-Recall (fill in the blank)
-Recognition (multiple choice) -Relearning (savings, take class again) |
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2 parts of Serial Position Effect
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-Primacy Effect (remember beginning better than middle)
-Recency Effect (remember end better than middle) |
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When hearing a serious of words about a related topic, you think of words that were never mentioned but that relate to that topic.
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False Memory
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Levels of processing
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-Shallow (surface structure)
-Deep (analyzing meaning & importance) |
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4 Theories of Forgetting
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-Decay Theory
-Interference Theory -Reconstructive/Schema Theory -Theory of Motivated Forgetting |
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Theory that unused memories fade away over time in the sensory and STM
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Decay Theory
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2 types of Interference Theory
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-Retroactive (new info interferes with old)
-Proactive (old info interferes with new) |
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Theory that we push unpleasant information to unconscious part of brain.
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Theory of Motivated Forgetting
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Inability to retrieve old LTM's
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Retrograde Amnesia
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Inability to store or retrieve new LTM's
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Anterograde Amnesia
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