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23 Cards in this Set
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Equipotentiality |
Memory is distributed throughout the brain rather than condined to any specific location |
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Long term potentiation |
The strengthening of synaptic connections, making the postsynaptic neruons more easily activated . Fire tigether wire together. |
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NMDA Receptor |
Glutamate receptor has a special propertry: opens only if nearby neuron fires at same time. Memory results from this process. |
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Epigenetic Mechanism |
Controls how DNA is expressed |
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Medial Temporal Lobes |
Middle section of temporal lobes. Repsonsible for the formation of new memories |
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Sensory Memory |
Tempoeary memory system closelky tied to sensory system lasts a fraction of a second, usually unaware its happening. Visual sensory memory: iconic memory Auditory: echoic memory |
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Working memory |
Active processinf system, keeps different types or info available for current use. Needs to be rehearsed to remembered. |
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Long term memory |
Relatively permanent storage for info |
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Serial position effect |
The idea that the ability to recall item fdom a list depends on the order of presentstion. Items presented early or late in the list remembered better than those in the middle |
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Primacy effect |
Remember items at BEGGINING of list better |
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Recency effect |
Better memory for the MOST RECENT items (last in list) |
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Schema |
Cognitive structures that help us perceive, organize, process, and use information |
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Explicit Memory |
System underlying conscipus memories |
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Declarative memory |
Cognitive info retrieved feom explicit memory. Knowledge that can be declared |
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Episodic memory |
Memory for ones own personal past experience |
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Semantic memory |
General knowledge about the world. Facts |
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Implicit memory |
System of underlying UNCONSCIOUS MEMORIES. Learned associations,doesnt require conscious attention |
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Procedural Memory |
Involves motor skills and behaviors. (How to ride a bike, autopilot) |
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Prospective memory |
Remembering something to do at a future time. Involves automatic and controlled processes |
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Transience |
Memory decay over time. |
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Blocking |
Retrieval failure (from long term memory) |
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Memory bias |
Changing memories over time so that they become consistent with with current beliefs qnd aditudes |
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Cryptomnesia |
Person thinks they came up with new idea when they really remembered it from a different source |
