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| The ability to retain and retrieve information |
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| To help us adapt to our environment by allowing us to remember important survival tactics |
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| 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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| Embedded false information into a questionnaire to prove how easily memory can be distorted |
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| The Three Basic Memory Processes |
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| Encoding, storage and retrieval |
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| Converting the information in such a way that facilitates our storage and retrieval of it |
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| When a stimuli has conflicting meaning and causes your process of encoding to slow down |
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| The Three Basic Memory Systems |
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| Sensory memory, short-term memory (STM) and long-term memory (LTM) |
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| Information that comes to us in the form of sensations |
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| Whatever we are thinking about at any given moment |
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| The limitless memory storage system that experiences no damage or severe deterioration |
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| Things that exist that cannot be physically captured |
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| 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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| No longer being able to recall new information |
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| George Miller's Discovery |
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| 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 |
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| Interference, Motivated Forgetting, and Cue-Dependent Forgetting |
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| When old information interferes with recalling new information |
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| When new information interferes with recalling old information |
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| Motivated Forgetting (AKA Suppression) |
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| Purposely and consciously choosing to forget information |
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| Unconsciously motivated to forget information |
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| When information is highly associated with cues and those cues are no longer available |
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| Seven Steps For Improving Memory |
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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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