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| Shortcut to understanding scenes and events the we have previous knowledge of. |
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| Reduces memory burden of understanding sentences |
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| Schemas, Gist encoding, and Semantics of words |
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| When we believe they don't fit in |
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- We are biased
- We over estimate their occurance |
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| We tend to forget the context easier than the message |
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| Under divided attention, we are less able to encode the context. Previously seen names get labeled as famous. |
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| A consequence of fluency. Related to prior exposure. |
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| The ability to consciously remember an event. |
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| Unconscious Biasing of Fluency |
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| When subjects are unaware of the previous presentation of a matching word, it increases the false alarm rate. When they are aware, it decreases it. |
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| Forgetting to do something |
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| Temporary inaccessibility |
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| Memory changed by beliefs |
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| Unwanted memories that we can't forget |
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| Mistaking sources of a memory |
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| A problem in encoding, storing, or retrieving info that can be used in the future |
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| A problem accessing events that happened in the past |
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| Patients have difficulty learning new info, although events from the past are recalled. There is a tendency to invent material to fill memory blanks. Most common cause is alcoholism. |
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| Amnesia patients able to learn to read mirror-transformed script as readily as control participants. Reading as a skill |
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| Preference effect for prior melodies looks normal, recognition is impaired |
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| Characteristics of Clive Wearing |
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| Preserved procedural memory. Preserved language. Massive anterograde amnesia in episodic memory. Loss of semantic memory. Intact implicit memory. Very short term memory only |
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| Promote a relative comparison in which people pick the best fit. Relative Judgement |
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| Encourage people to compare each member to their memory for the perpetrator. Absolute Judgement |
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| More accurate when someone chooses to. |
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| Saying 'good'/feedback from interogator |
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| Increases how confident eyewitnesses are that they had a good view |
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| Learning without trying to learn. Better on recognition tasks |
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| Trying to learn. Learning on purpose. Better on recall tasks |
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| Memory of facts and events. Conscious. 'Knowing what' |
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| Memory of skills and how to do things. Unconscious. 'Knowing how' |
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| Previous experiences aid in the performance of a task without awareness of those previous experiences |
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| Tests where we don't ask people to use their memory, but then measure the memory they use. Immune to cue-specific interference. No effects of cue overload |
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| Tests of implicit memory reveal slower forgetting |
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| Expose picture over and over for 5 miliseconds at a time. Preference for the picture goes up more than if we're exposed for a longer period of time. |
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| Is impaired more than recognition (in elderly) |
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| Recall for prices (elderly) |
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| Only impaired in older adults when prices are unrealistic |
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| Memory is more impaired for _____ than _____ in older adults. |
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Comparison of rate at which people falsely endorse names as being famous.
- Older adults more prone to the effects of this |
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| What people know about what makes things memorable to them. |
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| People tend to be overconfident in their answers |
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| Availability, anchoring, confirmation bias, hindsight |
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| How available info/answer is in your head. We tend to infer that our knowledge is more like the real world than it actually is |
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| (For range judgements) First value we come up with/are exposed to. Makes it more and more difficult to move away from it. |
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| Once we decide something, we seek out things that confirm that decision. |
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| Selectively remember thoughts you had that were consistent with the outcome and not thinking about the ones you had that were inconsistent. |
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| Actual number between the accuracy of answers and confidence percent. |
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| Spend more time on things that are harder to learn. Gives self pacers an advantage |
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| Don't spend more time on harder stuff. Don't do any better than someone who does not control own study time. |
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| Easier to remember things that more recently happened in your life. |
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| Before 20 to late 20s. Episodic memory is highest in 20s. More prone to false memory. Preferences change at 20s |
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| Original field of view "POV" moments |
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| Observer POV to watch other events |
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| Extracting knowledge that you don't know you have, without meaning to. Not aware you have that knowledge |
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