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| A vivid memory of a certain event and the incidents surrounding it, even after a long time has passed |
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| Our inability as adults to remember events in out lives before age 3.Problems with hippocampus |
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| Information that goes up to the brain |
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| initial coding in the neural impulses…Brief storage of incoming sensory information. |
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| Sensory memory in the visual mode. .25-1 second (REALLY BRIEF MEMORY) stays there until it’s masked by something else. |
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| Sensory memory of hearing (auditory) mode. Last about 2-3 seconds (Brief but longer than iconic) |
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| Temporal Integration Procedure |
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| when you see two meaningless pictures right after eacother and they make a meaningful image in your mind. |
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| is remembering the entire matrix |
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| Sperling’s partial report |
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| is remembering a specific line(row) of a matrix |
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| aka Working Memory-current cognitive processing (temporary 20-30 seconds |
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| meaningful units in memory |
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| Distraction (shouting numbers to someone who is memorizing a number) |
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| aka ROTE(repeat) rehearsal |
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| takes in STM related to LTM |
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| STM duration of 2-3 minutes |
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| possibly “Perminate” storage of information |
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| Unlimited capacity (Difficult to rerieve) →it can be (transformed) changed. |
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| – EXPLICIT (Declarative)- |
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| Requires conscious effort to remember or recall |
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| memory from personal experiences (autobiographical) |
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| factual knowledge, own personal dictionary or encyclopedia |
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| motor, what you always remember to do |
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| memory for automatically conditioned responses |
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| emotion associated with certain memories |
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| Senal Position effect-Primary Effect |
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| Senal Position effect-Recency Effect |
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| presented with list, asked to recall with no cues |
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| you see it and point it out |
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| lose memory from past events |
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| inability to form new memories |
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| It automatically goes from short term to long term |
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| you have to make an effort to get it to short term to long term |
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| Levels of processing theory-Shallow level |
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| Levels of processing theory-Deep level |
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| →(semantic coding)→attach meaning to it→associate it with something |
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| → stuff from STM is intergraded with information already in LTM |
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| Things will stick better if you make it meaningful to self |
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| . Encoding specificity principle |
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| Idea that there are specific cues that will help you recall/process things into LTM. |
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| – Context-dependent memory |
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| information learned in one place is best retrieved when you are in the same place. |
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| Physiological state is best recollect in same state |
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| LTM retrieval is best w/ information that is congruent that fits current mood. |
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| LTM retrieval is best w/ information that is congruent that fits current mood. |
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| putting pictures with things you need to remember |
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| serve as pegs to “hang” new information on it |
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| serve as pegs to “hang” new information on it |
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| distributed→learn, break, learn, break |
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| continuing to practice past the point of initial learning |
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| . ENCODING FAILURE THEORY |
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| memory did not get to LTM like you thought |
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| only so much space, “decays”Sensory and short term |
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| Old memories and new memories interfere with one another |
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| can’t access desired information because you’re lost retrieval cues |
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| RECONSTRUCTIVE MEMORY-Schemas |
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| - An organized set of knowledge that allows us to organize and interpret info about our world |
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| Frameworks for our knowledge about people, objects, events, and actions that allow us to organize and interpret information about our world |
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| when you have a memory but attribute it to a wrong source |
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| memories can be desrtoyed by exposure to misleading information |
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