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30 Cards in this Set
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LONG TERM MEMORY
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information that is aquired in the course of an experience and that persists so that it can be retrieved long after the experience
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Explicit (declerative) Memory
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forms of LTM that can be consciously recalled and descrived to others, such as memory for facts, ideas, or events
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Episodic memory
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The memory of events in our own personal past
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Semantic memory
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our general knowledge about things in the world and their meaning.
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Implicit (nondeclerative) Memory
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Non-conscious forms of LTM that are expressed as a change in behaviour
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Anterograde Amnesia
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Unable to remember info encountered after brain damage
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Retrograde
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Unable to remember info encountered before the brain damage
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H.M
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Suffered seizures, bilateral removal of his medial temporal lobes
Working memory still intact Has some episodic memories His pattern of forgetting show that memories do not permanently depend on the medial temporal lobes |
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Encoding
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various processes by which info is transformed into a memory representation
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Encoding is influenced by a # of factors...
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Elaborating..interpreting information and connecting it with other info.
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The Generation Effect
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More likely to remember info you retrieve or generate than info u receive or attempt to memorise.
*good idea to use flash cards* |
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The Spacing Effect
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More advantageous to distribute reptitions over a space of time than the massing of them at a single time.
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3 parts to encoding
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1. Attention (fail to encode if you don't pay proper attention to info presented)
2. Elaboration (more like to encode info if you can expand on it and relate it to other info) 3. Consolidation: Modifies the representations such that they become more stable over time and ultimately exist indep. of the med. temp.lobes |
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Retrieval
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The present makes contact with the past..retrieve memories
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Pattern Completion
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A whole is built from linked parts.
(when a retrieval cue that correspond to part of the encoded info, such as the sight of a certain face, homes in on stored representations of other features bound to that representation - a name, a sign, a convo..thus completes a pattern. |
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Cues for Retrieval
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Retrieval is cue-dependent -> it is stimulated by hints and clues from the external and internal environment
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Context-Dependent Effect
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Retrieval is typically better when the physical environment matches that at encoding
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State-Dependent Effect
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Better retreival when internal states at retrieval match that at encoding.
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Familiarity
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The sense of having previously encountered a stimulus
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Reconstructive Memory
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we try to reconstruct the past during retrieval rather than try to reproduce it.
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Biases in Memory
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1. Consistency bias: Belief that one's own attitudes are stable over time.
2. Belief Bias: personal beliefs unconsciously influe memory to reshape it in a form consistent with expectations |
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Misattribution
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Ascribing a recollection to an incorrect time, place, or person.
-- occurs if we encounter stimuli that is similar to previously encountered stimuli |
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Suggestion
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False or misleading info is introduced after the event or is elicited thru the use of leading questions.
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Misinformation Effect
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Produces misremembering of an orfinal event in line with false info
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Forgetting
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Inability to recall or recognise previously encoded info
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Theories of why we forget
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1. Decay THeory:
--> fogetting is caused by spotaneous weakening of memory representation with tim - doesnt hold up. 2. Interference theories --> if the same cue is bound to a number of representaions, these representations compete during retrieval |
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Retroactive Interference
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The aquistion of new info interferes with the retrieval of old info
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Proactive Intereference
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Previously learned info can interefere with memory for info learned later.
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Implicit (Priming)
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An encounter with a stimulus in which unconscious alterations in our subsequent response to that stimulus occurs.
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Skill Leaning (3 Stages)
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1. Cognitive Stage
2. Associate Stage 3. Autonomous Stage |