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| Retension of information overtime through encodeing, storage, and retrieval. |
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| Getting information into memory |
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| Retaining information over time |
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| Taking information out of storage |
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| what is selective attention? |
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| Focusing on a specific aspect of experience while ignoring the others |
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| What is divided attention? |
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| When a person attends to several things at once |
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| What is an example of encodeing? |
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| Listening to music, listening to a lecture, watching a move, talking |
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| What is an example of storage? |
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| We remember information for different periods of time.... for a second, a few mintues, and even up to years or for our entire lifetime |
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| What are the levels of processing? |
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| A principle that memory is on a continum from shallow to deep, with deeper processing producing better memory |
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| What is shallow processing? |
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| Physical and perceptual features are analyzed |
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| What is an example of shallow processing |
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| lines, angles, contour that make up the physical appearance of an object |
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| What is intermediate processing? |
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| The stimulus is recognized and labeled |
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| What is an example of intermediate processing |
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| The object is recognized as a car |
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| Semantic, meaningful, sumbolic characteristics are used |
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| What is an example of deep processing? |
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| Asociations with the car are brought to mind |
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| Extensiveness of processing at any given level |
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| What is the Atkinson-Shiffrin Theory? |
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| Memory involves three separate systems; sensory memory, short-term memory, and long term memory |
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| Time frame of a fraction of a section to several seconds |
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| What is an example of sensory memory? |
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| Walking to class in the morning; sights and sounds |
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| What is short term memory? |
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| Time frames up to 30 seconds |
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| time frames up to a lifetime |
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| What is an example of short term memory? |
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| How much info you can keep track of without external aids 7 + or - 2 |
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| What are two ways to improve short term memory? |
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| Grouping or packing information that exceeds the 7 + or - 2 memory span into higher order units that can be rememered as single units |
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| What works best when remembering a list of numbers? |
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| A three-part system that temorarily holds information |
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| How long is working memory stored for? |
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| In working memory what does the phonological loop do? |
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| specialized to briefly store speech based information |
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| In working memory what does the visuospatial working memory do? |
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| It stores visual and spatial information |
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| What does the central executive loop do in working memory? |
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| integrates information from all other loops. |
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| the conscious recollection of information such as specific facts or events and at least in humans information that can be verbally communicated |
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| the retension of information about the where and when of life's happenings |
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| What is an example of explict memory? |
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| recounting the events of a movie you have seen |
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| what is an example of episodic memory? |
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| the details of what it was like when your younger brother or sister was born, what happened on your first date ect.... |
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| A person's knowledge about the world |
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| What are some examples of semantic memory? |
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| Knowing about famous individuals, importnat places, and common things |
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| What is retrospective memory? |
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| What is prospective memory? |
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| Remebering information about something in the future |
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| memory in which behavior is affected by prior experience being consciously recollected |
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| What is procedural memory? |
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| involves memory for skills |
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| the activation of information that people already have in storage to help them remember new information better and faster. |
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| prexisting mental concept or framework that helps people to organize and interpret information. |
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What is serial position effect? |
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| the tendancy for items at the begining and at the end of a list to be recalled more readily |
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