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Psychology Ch. 7 Memory
Professor Webster's Class
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
10/24/2012

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Describe Memory

R.S.O.A.R.

Definition
receiving, storing, organizing, altering, and recovering information
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What are the three levels of memory?
Definition

Sensory Memory

Short-term memory

Long-term memory

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Describe the Atkinsons-Schiffrin model
Definition
shows how memories are made
Term
What are the three steps, in order, of what happens to a information
Definition

1. Encoded

2. Stored

3. Retrieved

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Describe Sensory Memory
Definition
holds information for a few seconds
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Describe Iconic Memories
Definition
storing images for a few seconds
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Describe Echoic Memory
Definition
Holding sounds for a few seconds
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Describe Short-term memory

 

Definition
holds info for a short amount of time
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What is the term for using STM to perform actions?
Definition
Working memory
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Describe Long-term memory
Definition
permanently holds memory
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Describe the purpose of Chunking
Definition
it puts information into bits that can be stored in LTM
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Describe Maintenance Rehearsal
Definition
Review/repeat information to hold it in STM
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Describe Rote Rehearsal
Definition
storing information into LTM by repetition
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Describe Elaborative Encoding
Definition
Putting meaning to information
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Describe Constructive Processing
Definition
Updating memory because of new information
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What does the Network Model involve? Describe it
Definition

LTM

network of linked memories

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Describe Redintegration
Definition
One memory serves as a cue to trigger another.
Term
What are the two types of LTM?
Definition

1. Procedural

2. Declarative

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Describe Procedural Memory
Definition
Remembering basic elements of conditioned responses and learned skills
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Describe Semantic Memory
Definition

In the LTM

Holds basic knowledge

(To Know)

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Describe Episodic memory

what does it allow?

Definition

(To Remember)

Where you were, what you did

allows for reminiscing

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Describe the Serial Position Effect
Definition
Not remembering the middle of a sequence
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Describe Relearning
Definition
Learning something that you already learned
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Describe Explicit Memory
Definition
Memories that are consciously known
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Describe Implicit memories
Definition
memories that are unconsciously known
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Describe Priming
Definition
Using redintegration to retrieve an implicit memory
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Describe the Curve of Forgetting
Definition
We forget a lot at first, then a little later
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Describe Encoding Failure
Definition
memory never forms
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Describe memory traces
Definition
Nerve cells and brain activity change when memory is stored
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Describe Memory Decay
Definition
memories weaken when memory traces weaken
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Describe State-dependent learning
Definition
learning in a certain state
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Describe Interference

Two kinds?

Definition

New memories impair retrieval of old memories

1. Retroactive Interference

2. Proactive Interference

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Describe Retroactive Interference
Definition
New Memories stop retrieval of old memories
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Describe Proactive Interference
Definition
Old memories stops new info from being stored
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Describe Positive and Negative Transfer
Definition

Positive=using one skill to help with another

negative=one skill not helping with another

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Describe Repression
Definition
unconsciously forgetting
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Describe Suppression
Definition
Consciously forgetting
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Describe retrograde Amnesia
Definition
Forgetting events that occurred before trauma
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Describe Anterograde Amnesia
Definition
Forgetting events that occurred after amnesia
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Describe Consolidation
Definition
Forming memories
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Describe Electroconvulsive Shock
Definition
stops consolidation
Term
What happens if the Hippocampus is damaged?
Definition
anterograde Amnesia
Term
Describe flashbulb memories
Definition

remembering information from a high emotional state

vivid but not always accurate

Term

Where is Declarative memory stored?

two subcategories?

Definition

Cerebral Cortex

episodic=front

semantic=back

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Where is Procedural memory stored?
Definition
Cerebellum
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Describe Eidetic Imagery
Definition

remembering a mental image to use as a source

common for kids

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