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24 Cards in this Set
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What is memory |
The ability to store and retrieve information |
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What are the three key functions of memory |
Encoding storage and retrieval |
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What does ltp or long term potentiation stand for |
Where the communication across the synapse makes the connection stronger Making further communication stronger |
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What is H.M. famous for |
He had the hyppocampus removed |
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Theories of natural selection are |
Memory mechanisms that help us survive should be passed down |
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After 3 tests on different types of encoding what one yilded the best results |
Survival encoding |
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Long term memory is made up of |
Explicit memory and implicit memory |
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Explicit memory is |
With councious recall |
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Implicit memory is |
Without conscious recall |
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Retrieval cues is |
External information that helps bring stored information to mind |
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What us state dependent retrieval |
If your in the same area and stuff you will remember better |
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Transfer appropriate processing |
Memory will transfer from one situation to the next when the context of the situations match |
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What is retrieval memory |
Retrieving a memory can strengthen the memory but also cause you to forget other things about what happened |
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Episodic memory is |
Recalling events that you performed yourself |
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Semantic is |
Recalling numbers and things other people have done |
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What is transience |
Forgetting what occurs with the passage of time |
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Retroactive interference |
Information learned later impairs memory for information acquired earlier |
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Proactive interference |
Situations in which information learned earlier impairs memory for information acquired later |
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Blocking |
Failer to retrieve information that is available in memory even though you are trying to produce it |
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Source memory |
Recall of when where and how information was aquired |
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False recognition |
Feeling of familiarity about something that hasn't been encountered before |
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Suggetability |
Tendency to incorporate misleading information from exterenal sources into peranal recollections |
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Persistent |
Remembering events that we wish we wouldn't |
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Flashbulb memory |
Detailed memory of when and where we heard about shocking events |
