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Allows learning form experience
-helps us adapt to changing enviroments |
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| Translating Information, then proccessing it |
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| Retining Information over time |
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| Process that access stored information |
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| The Three Stage Model of Memory |
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Sensory Memory
Working (short term) memory
Long term Memory |
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Briefly holds sensory information
initial information process |
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| Short Term (Working Memory) |
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Temporarily Holds A limited amount of information
Stores and Proccesses information of which we are conscious |
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| Capacity of Short Term Memory |
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Magical Number= 7 peices of info plus or minus 2
depends
5-9 meaningful items
"Shelf life"= 20 seconds |
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| You increase Short Term memory by.... |
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| Chunking, combining bits into a peice to remember |
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| 3 Working memory charachteristics |
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Phonological Loop
Visual Spatial Sketchpad
Central Executive |
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| Visual Spatial Sketch pad |
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| Directs attention, recall from LTM, and integration of input |
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Library of durable memories
Storage capacity unlimited
LTM can endure for a lifetime |
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Effortful Proccessing
Automatic Proccessing |
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| unintentional and requiring minimal attention |
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rote repitition of information
less optimal |
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Focuses on informations meaning
expands on information |
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organize and interpret information
allow development of expert knowlege |
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| Held in short term memory via reverberating nueronal activity |
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| Hippocampal activiy maitained for a period of time synaptic changes occur and form long term memories |
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| Hippocampal activiy maitained for a period of time synaptic changes occur and form long term memories |
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| formation of long term memories from short term memories. (LTP) |
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| Short term memory is formed in... |
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Primacy effect- better recal for beginning of a list
Recency effect- Better recal for the end of a list |
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| Types of Long term Memory |
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Explicit Memory
Implicit Memory |
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| Concious or intentional MEmory retrieval |
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| Memory Influences behaviour while not conciously aware |
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| Declarative / Sematic Memory |
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| Episodic/ procedural Memory |
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| Stimulu that lead to activation of information in LTM |
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| Easier to remember something in same enviroment where encoded |
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| Retrieval Better when internal state is the same as when information was encoded. |
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Encoding failure
decay of memory trace
Interference
Motivated Forgetting
Amnesia |
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| Encoding failure happens becuase of |
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Lack of attention
Lack of Deep Proccessing |
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| Long term Physical trace fades over time |
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| Past Material interferes with New Material |
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| New Information interferes with old information |
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| forget everything before amnesia |
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| Memory loss for events After amnesia |
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| Distortion of memroy by misleading post event information |
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| Can distort childeren's memories |
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Organize
elaborate
link
images |
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