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| Which is more important, experience or memory? |
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1. Sensory
2. Short term
3. Long term |
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| What we take in thru our eyes, ears, etc. Only lasts a few seconds long. Not stored in short term or long term memory b/c not important |
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| Visual information you take in through your eyes |
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| Information you take in through your ears |
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| Anything you remember for 30 seconds or less |
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| What is the average amount of information we can store in our Short-term memory? |
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| 7 (plus or minus two) information bits at once |
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| Meaningful single piece of information |
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| Reorganizing or modifying information to assist storage in STM |
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| Bits of information that are grouped into larger chunks |
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| Repeating information silently to prolong its presence in STM and encode it in Long term. *NOT THE BEST WAY FOR STUDENT TO LEARN |
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| Anything you remember for 30 seconds or more |
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| Making information meaningful to you by linking it to information you already have. *BEST WAY TO STUDY & KEEP IN LONG TERM |
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| Memory for how to do things |
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| Memories for events and personal things in your life |
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| Own personal encyclopedia and memory. Knowledge you have; how to solve a math problem |
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| What are the 2 dimensions of LTM? |
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| Memories you are consciously aware of |
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| (Deja-vu); things we have in our memories but are unconscious. Spreads via a brain circuitry that operates beneath our awareness |
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| What are 3 retrieval's of LTM? |
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1. Free recall
2. Cued recall
3. Recognition |
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| Answer is in front of you, you just have to recognize it and pick it |
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| When memory retrieval is influenced by body state; if your body state is the same at the time of learning AND the time of retrieval, retrievals will be improved |
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| Memories created during emotionally significant event; not always accurate; great confidence placed in them though they may be inaccurate |
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| Often distorts our memories depending on the way things are asked |
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| False memories; *COMMON problem for police work in eyewitness testimony!! |
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| We forget very quickly what we just learned if we don't use it |
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1. Encoding failure
2. Retroactive and Proactive interference
3. Motivated forgetting
4. Decay theory
5. Amnesia |
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| Never got the information into long term memory |
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| Retroactive and Proactive interference |
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Retro: New learning interferes with old memory
Pro: Old learning interferes with new learning |
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| Purposeful forgetting, even unconsciously |
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| Consciously trying to forget |
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| Unconsciously trying to forget |
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| If you don't use it you lose it |
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Forget things from past (RETROGRADE, backward moving)
Inability to form new memories (ANTEROGRADE, forward moving) |
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