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| The more syllables, the less items can be recalled. |
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| Pronunciation similarity effect |
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| Acoustic confusion you remember the wrong, similar information. (ex: remembering D instead of B) |
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| If you give someone two tasks for the phonological loop, they will interfere. If you give one visual task and one phonological task, they will not interfere. |
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| Decides what information to keep, decides how to encode; has a limited capacity |
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| Give someone something to repeat and then ask them to simultaneously perform a task (i.e. repeating the word "the" while doing a math problem) |
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| Where do central executive tasks occur? |
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| Processes both visual and spatial information |
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| Processes a limited number of sounds for a short period of time |
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| Give people a series of sentences to read, and test their memory for the content and words of the sentence; asked to remember the last word of each sentence |
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| Primacy effect & recency effect |
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| Two components of the serial position effect |
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| Short term memory is increased by... |
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| Duration can be lengthened by... |
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| The length of the longest list of digits you can remember. |
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(1) present a set of lettesr
(2) count backwards by 7 (interface)
(3) report the letters |
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| memories about your own personal experiences; autobiographical memory |
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| general knowledge; facts about the world |
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| lose memories from the past (i.e. you may not remember how an injury happened when you wake up) |
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| loss of ability to form new memories (i.e. HM who damaged his hippocampus) |
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| Refers to the unconscious memories (i.e. how to ride a bike) |
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| Give people a series of sentences to read, and test their memory for the content and words of the sentence; asked to remember the last word of each sentence |
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| Primacy effect & recency effect |
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| Two components of the serial position effect |
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| Short term memory is increased by... |
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| Duration can be lengthened by... |
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| The length of the longest list of digits you can remember. |
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(1) present a set of lettesr
(2) count backwards by 7 (interface)
(3) report the letters |
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| memories about your own personal experiences; autobiographical memory |
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| general knowledge; facts about the world |
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| lose memories from the past (i.e. you may not remember how an injury happened when you wake up) |
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| loss of ability to form new memories (i.e. HM who damaged his hippocampus) |
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| Non declarative/procedural memory |
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| Refers to the unconscious memories (i.e. how to ride a bike) |
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| You can put the actual memory into words |
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| an item in a list that is distinctive |
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| introduced the levels of processing approach; based on the metaphor that memory is a container and information are the objects |
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| Post-event misinformation effect |
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| People first view an event, and then afterward they are given misleading information about the event; later on, they mistakenly recall the misinformation rather than the event they actually saw. |
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| People have trouble recalling old memories because some recently learned material keeps interfering with old memories (ex: lawyer giving misinformation & you report the misinformation rather than the actual event) |
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| Performance is best when moods matched during learning and testing |
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| Performance is best when mood matches the content of the material; i.e. if you are happy during learning, you will remember the happy words best during testing |
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| Studies eyewitness errors; proved that eyewitness accounts can be inaccurate by feeding misinformation that people report rather than the actual event |
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| Good performance is not only how you encode it, but also in the situation you retrive it in matches the encoding situation (i.e. going into a room and forgetting why you walked in there and returning to the previous room to remember) |
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| requires rich processing in terms of meaning and interconnected concepts |
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