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Chapter 7 Test
Chapter 7.1-7.4
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Psychology
11th Grade
09/23/2009

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Sensory Memory
Definition
first stage of memory, consists of the immediate, initial recording of information that enters through our senses
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Iconic Memory
Definition
like snapshots, remember some thing for a brief period of time even if you weren't "listening"
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Eidetic Memory
Definition
mental traces of sound, echoes, held in a sensory register.
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Short Term Memory
Definition
working memory, bridge between sensory memory and long term memory
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Primary Effect
Definition
tendency to recall the initial items in a series of items (remember the first thing)
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Recency Effect
Definition
tendency to recall the last items in a series
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Chunking
Definition
the organization of items into a familiar or manageable units
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Interference
Definition
occurs when new information appears in short-term memory and takes place of what is already there
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Long Term memory
Definition
the third and final stage of informational memory
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Sensory Forgetting
Definition
sensory memory decays almost immediately until you you pay attention to transfer it to short term memory
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Herman Ebbinghuas
Definition
first to use nonsense syllables,
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Recognition
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involves identifying objects or events that have been encountered before.
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Harry Bahrick
Definition
school year book experiment
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Recall
Definition
to bring it back to mind.
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Relearning
Definition
to re-study, and putting in effor you can "re-learn" something
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Decay
Definition
the fading away of a memory
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Repression
Definition
Freud-- memories make us feel anxiety, and we will block out bad ones to protect ourselves
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Amnesia
Definition
Dissocialtive amnesia: memory loss caused by brain injury, shock, fatigue, illness, or repression.
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Infatile Amnesia
Definition
Not remembering childhood memories before the age of 3
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Anterograde Amnesia
Definition
memory loss from trauma that presents a person from forming new memories
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Retrograde Amnesia
Definition
people forget the period leading up to a traumatic event
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Mnemonic Devices
Definition
all methods to improving memory ex. song abbreviations, chunking
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Hippocampus
Definition
Explicit Memories, part in brain that helps us form memories
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Encoding
Definition
translation into a form in which it can be stored
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Visual Encoding
Definition
forming a mental picture
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Acoustic Memory
Definition
read the list and repeat it several times, letters in your memory as a sequence of sounds
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Semantic Codes
Definition
Trying to make sense of the letters or list
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Storage
Definition
the second process of memory, it is the maintenance of encoded information over a period of time
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Maintenece Rehearsal
Definition
repeating information over and over again to keep form forgetting it.
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Elaborative Rehearsal
Definition
make it meaningful by relating it to information you already know well.
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Organizational Systems
Definition
Memory organizes information by common features in groups
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Filing Errors
Definition
our ability to remember information when we are heathy and functioning well- is subject to error
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Retrieval
Definition
consists of locating stored information and returning it to conscious thought.
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Context-dependent Memories
Definition
memories that came back to you in that place. remember names in same place that you learned them
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State Dependent Memory
Definition
memory that is retrieved in the mood that it was originally stored/encoded in
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Tip of the tongue phenomenon
Definition
feeling of knowing experience
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Memory
Definition
process by which we recollect prior experiences and information and skills learned in the past
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Episodic Memory
Definition
memory of a specific event. Ex. memories of last quiz or what you ate for dinner
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Flashbulb memories
Definition
events that are so important that our brain remembers every detail like a photography ex. 9/11
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Sematic Memory
Definition
general knowledge that people remember ex. george washington was the first president
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Explicit
Definition
clear, or clearly stated or explain. memory of specific information. information may be autobiographical or refer to general knowledge
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Implicit
Definition
things that are imlicit are implied or not clearly stated. consist of skill or procedures you have learned and will never forget. ex. how to throw a baseball
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