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| remembering to perform intended actions. For example, remembering to pay your rent by a certain date. |
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| Prospective memory is enhanced by |
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| Time of life for which there is enhanced memory. |
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| Why does reminiscence bump occur |
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| Because memory encoding is better during rapid change in life followed by stability |
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| flashbulb memory (Just read the answer) |
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| memory for the circumstances surrounding how a person heard about an event, not memory for the event itself. The memories are for highly emotional events. Some have suggested the idea that the events which trigger flashbulb memories are related to how important the event was to the person experiencing it (consequentiality). Although flashbulb memories are perceived to be very vivid and accurate, vividness does not necessarily mean that flashbulb memories are accurate. |
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| presenting a story from Canadian folklore to participants and having them retell the story later. It was found that the participants tended to change the story to fit their expectations based on their own culture. |
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| Narrative rehearsal hypothesis |
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| We remember flashbulb memories because we rehearse them after they happen because they were traumatic. |
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| What is the constructive approach to memory |
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| memories are composed of the actual event plus additional factors such as the person’s knowledge, experiences and expectations. |
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| A type of schema that involves a sequence of actions |
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| A person's memory for an event is modified by misleading information presented after the event. |
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| Car crash, they used the word smashed as apposed to hit and people remembered differently. |
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| Stanny and Johnson's weapons focus |
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| looked at memory for crime scenes and found that when a weapon is shown, it distracts the witness from seeing other details in the scene. |
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| important to use open-ended questions that do not suggest any particular correct answer. |
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| include sensory memory, short-term memory and long-term memory. |
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| How long does info remain in sensory memory |
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| Information remains in sensory memory for seconds or factions of a second. |
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| How long it remains in short term memory |
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| 15-30 seconds....about 18 |
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| Persistence of vision is continued perception of light for a fraction of a second after the original light stimulus has been extinguished. |
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| Sperling’s experiment in both his partial report and full report conditions |
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| participants were able to remember about 4.5 of the letters in the whole report condition and about 9.8 (10) in the partial report condition. |
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| brief sensory memory for sound is referred to as echoic memory. |
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| visual, acoustic (phonological) and semantic encoding |
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| Semantic coding is encoding based on meaning, visual coding is encoding based on a visual image. Acoustic coding is encoding based on sound. |
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| When presented with letters they are most likely to make what kind of mistake |
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| Short term memory can occur... |
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| what determines forgetting |
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| Peterson and Peterson thinks its decay, others say interference |
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| Superior memory for words at beginning of list |
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| Remembering at end of list best |
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| memory for events in one’s own life |
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| memory for facts (general knowledge) |
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| memory for how to do things (memory for skills) |
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| tendency to believe a statement is true just because we have been exposed to it before. |
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| rehearsal that involves thinking about the meaning of an item to be remembered or making connections between that item and prior knowledge. |
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| rehearsal that involves repetition without any consideration of meaning or making connections to other information….I.E. Telephone number |
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| cue that the person can use to help them remember information that is stored in memory. |
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| transfer-appropriate processing. |
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| we are better able to recall information when the type of encoding and type of retrieval match. |
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| transfer-appropriate processing. |
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| we are better able to recall information when the type of encoding and type of retrieval match. |
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| refers to the fact that we learn information together with its context. |
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