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Psych GRE - Princeton Review
Verbal Learning & Memory Tasks
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Psychology
Graduate
11/03/2010

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Serial Learning
Definition
A list
subject to primacy and recency effects: first and last items are easiest to remember
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Serial anticipation Learning
Definition
Instead of recalling an entire list at once, it is done one at a time.
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Paired Associate learning
Definition
the style of learning used to study foreign languages.
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Free Recall Learning
Definition
A list of items is learned, and then must be recalled in any order with no cue.
Term
7 Factors making items on a list easier to retrieve:
Definition
Acoustic Dissimilarity
Semantic Dissimilarity
Brevity
Familiarity
Concreteness
Meaning
Importance to the subject.
Term
Decay Theory (trace theory)
Definition
memories fade with time.
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Interference Theory
Definition
competing information blocks retrieval.
Term
Mnemonics
Definition
memory cues that help learning and recall
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Generation-Recognition Model
Definition
suggests that anything one might recall should easily be recognized.
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Tip of the Tongue Phenomenon
Definition
is being on the verge of retrieval but not successfully doing so.
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State-dependant Memory
Definition
Retrieval is more successful if it occurs in the same emotional state or physical state in which encoding occurred.
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Clustering
Definition
the brain's tendency to group together similar items in memory whether they are learned together or not.
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Eidetic Imagery
Definition
Photographic Memory
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Flashbulb Memories
Definition
recollections that seem burned into the brain, such as "what is your memory of the world trade center collapsing?"
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Tachtiscope
Definition
an instrument often used in cognitive or memory experiments. It presents visual material to subjects for a fraction of a second.
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Zeigarnik Effect
Definition
the tendency to recall uncompleted tasks better than completed ones.
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