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Exam Two
Chapter Six
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Psychology
Undergraduate 2
01/31/2007

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Memory
Definition
The ability to retain and retrieve information
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Purpose of Memory
Definition
To help us adapt to our environment by allowing us to remember important survival tactics
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Jean Piaget
Definition
Developmental psychologist who discovered that his memory of almost being kidnapped never actually occured and he only thought it did because he was told so
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Elizabeth Loftus (1978)
Definition
Embedded false information into a questionnaire to prove how easily memory can be distorted
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The Three Basic Memory Processes
Definition
Encoding, storage and retrieval
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Encoding
Definition
Converting the information in such a way that facilitates our storage and retrieval of it
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Stroop Effect
Definition
When a stimuli has conflicting meaning and causes your process of encoding to slow down
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The Three Basic Memory Systems
Definition
Sensory memory, short-term memory (STM) and long-term memory (LTM)
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Sensory Memory
Definition
Information that comes to us in the form of sensations
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Short-Term Memory (STM)
Definition
Whatever we are thinking about at any given moment
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Long-Term Memory (LTM)
Definition
The limitless memory storage system that experiences no damage or severe deterioration
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Constructs
Definition
Things that exist that cannot be physically captured
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H.M.
Definition
Man who had brain surgery that removed his amygdala in addition to his hippocamptus in the hopes of decreasing his life-threatening seizures, but instead received anterograde amnesia
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Anterograde Amnesia
Definition
No longer being able to recall new information
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George Miller's Discovery
Definition
Humans are capable of holding 7 +/- 2 bits of information in our STM and that we often us chunking to circumvent this limitation
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The Three Ways We Forget Information
Definition
Interference, Motivated Forgetting, and Cue-Dependent Forgetting
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Proactive Interference
Definition
When old information interferes with recalling new information
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Retroactive Interference
Definition
When new information interferes with recalling old information
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Motivated Forgetting (AKA Suppression)
Definition
Purposely and consciously choosing to forget information
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Repression
Definition
Unconsciously motivated to forget information
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Cue-Dependent Forgetting
Definition
When information is highly associated with cues and those cues are no longer available
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Seven Steps For Improving Memory
Definition
1. Pay attention
2. Encode information by attaching meaning to it
3. Use visual imagery
4. Spread the material to be learned over as many days as possible
5. Overlearn the material
6. Study a few hours prior to your normal bedtime
7. Be flexible
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