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Psychology-ch8-Think Psychology
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absent minded
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misplacing items, lack of attention, failure to encode into working memory
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amnesia
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memory loss
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Retrograde amnesia
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memory loss characterized by loss of past memories
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Anterograde amnesia
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Memory loss characterized by unable to form new long-term memories
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Attention
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When a sensation grabs our attention, we are likely to pay attention to it and transfer it to out working memory.
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Basal Ganglia
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Sets of interconnected structures in the brain involved in forming procedural memories and habits related to movement
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Bias
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Tendency to believe that some peoples ideas, etc. are better than others usually resulting in treating people unfairly
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Blocking
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Retrieval failure. answer question on tip of tongue example of blocking
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Cerebellum
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part of the brain involved in conditioning and forming procedural memories and habits to movement
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chunking
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By organizing pieces of information into chunks we can store more of that info in working memory
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Conditioning
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implicit memories are formed through conditioning ie scared of clowns
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Context and effect
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Describes person's ability to better retrieve info when in the same context in which the info we first encoded
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deep Processing
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level of processing in which s words meaning is encoded
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Distortion (3 sins)
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1-Misattention 2-Suggestibility 3-Bias
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Misattribution
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May remember parts of event correctly
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Suggesitibility
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suggestion regarding memory
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Auditory encoding
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encoding sounds
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Conscious encoding
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requires paying explicit attention to the info to be remembered
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sematic encoding
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encoding of meaning
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Encoding Storage Retrieval
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Encodes info and stores it away for future use
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encoding- what do we encode
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images-sound and meanings
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forgetting
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You may not retrieve info previously stored
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Forgetting - cued
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If we don't intend to remember info we have no trouble removing that info from working memory
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Forgetting curve
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graphical reprensentation of how quickly a person's memories fade over time
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Forgetting- Pseudo
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Technically while your reading you think you are encoding info the info thought stops the encoding- so it was not encoded at all
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forgetting - retrieval failure
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Interference-Proactive-Retroactive interference-Storage Decay-forgetting cue
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Frontal lobe
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Hippocampus processing elicit memories
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HABITATION
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when A PERSON IS REPEATEDDLY EXPOSED TO A STIMULUS(such as a clown over a period of time the person's response to that stimuli eventually decreases ver time
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hippocampus
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LARGELY RESPONSIBLE FOR PROCESSING OUR EXPLICIT MEMORIES-ASSISTED in memory formation
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hypervigilance
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fight or flight
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echoic memory
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ability to briefly and accurately remember sounds
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Eidetic memory
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photographic memory
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Elaborate rehearsal long term memory
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when we elaborate we give meaning to the info itself is fairly meaningless encoding
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Explicit memories
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one of which are consciously aware. We remember certain facts or experiences
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Explicit memories
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Some explicit memories contain facial and contextual info that is not directly linked to life events.
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Iconic memory
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ability is facilitated by a form of sensory memory
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implicit
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we are not consciously aware of our implicit memories
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implicit memories - priming
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Researcher subjects by presenting them with a stimulus (usually very quickly) before asking subjects to complete a task
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intrusion
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the art of wrongfully entering upon, seizing or taking possession of the property of another.
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LTP
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When memories from strong neural connections we remember those memories more easily
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mnemonics
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devices are memory aids thata give rhyme and reason to lists of other pieces of info, encoding
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memory
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brain system for filing away new info and retrieving previously learned material
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memory - 3 types
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Sensory memory
working memory
long term memory
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sensory memory and the brain
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Visual Cortex, auditory cortex, frontal lobe
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Memory forgetting 3 sins
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Absent mindedness
transience
blocking
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memory three sins of distortion:
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Misattribution, suggestibility, bias
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Memory on sin of intrusion
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Persistence
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Outer limits of Belief
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memory critical
serve as a reminder that the world we perceive and "real" world are not always the same
memories not always true
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Primary effect`
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remembers the first few items long enough to put into storage
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Proactive interferences
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phenomenon in which previously learned info interferes with a person's ability to recall new info.
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Procedural Memories
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consists of habits and skills that we perform. Riding a bike and playing an instrument are both examples of procedural memory
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regency effect
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given a list of items to remember we will be able to remember the last few items on the lists without much difficulty
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rote rehearsal
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We can increase time of stored material is process of repeating info either ut loud or silent with the intent of learning that info
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Retrieval Cue
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stimulus that helps a person retrieve info from memory
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retrieve from long term memory
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Recognition on recall?? Retrieval cues-context effect-retrieval cue-state-dependent memory
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Retroactive interference
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phenomenon in which previously learned info interferes with a person's ability to recall new info
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serial position effect SPE
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Our ability to recall (or not to recall) items depending on their position in a list is called SPE
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shallow processing -
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Process in which a word's wound or appearance- has been encoded
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State dependent memory
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stored memory that is more easily retrieved when a piece in the same state as that were when the info was first encoded
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storage
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levels of processing-shallow processing-
deep processing
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stora decay
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phenomenon in which many of a person's memories fade over time
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suggestibility
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suggestions not actual facts
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synapses
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areas between neurons across which never impulses travel from one neuron to the next
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transience
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memories are not permanent-fade over time-storage decay
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unconscious encoding
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automatic processing - refers to the fact that we often pay attention to certain things without being aware that we are doing so.
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visual encoding
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encoding images
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Yerkes Dodson law
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states in general that performance peaks with moderate level of arouaal
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