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Psychology Ch. 6
PSY 200 Ch. 6 Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Sustained attention | ability to maintain attention for a prolonged period of time |
| elaboration | different connection around a stimulus at any given level, also linked with neural activity especially the brain's left frontal lobe |
| atkinson/shiffrin | sensory, Long-term memory, short-term memory |
| Short-Term Memory | has more capacity than sensory and a longer duration |
| Working memory | active memory system |
| visual-spacial sketch pad | limitedd |
| ematic-episodic | explicit |
| asks who, what, when, where, why? | explicit |
| asks how? | implicit |
| conscious recollection of facts | explicit |
| nonconscious knowledge derived from past experience | implicit |
| also called declarative | explicit |
| procedural, priming, non declarative skills | implicit |
| episodic means | autobiographical, about your life, explicit |
| priming is | activation of info. you already have in sotrage which helps to remember new infor. better. Enhances retrieval. |
| We have a _____ for a restaurant when we know a host will take us to our table, a waiter will take our drink orders, then we will be brought bread. | script |
| Cake, candles, balloons, presents, games | script for birthday party |
| Connectionist view | memories are organized |
| Long-term potentiation | how memory functions at neuron level |
| cerebellum and cerebral cortex | implicit memory |
| amyglia | emotional memories |
| multiple choice | recognition |
| essay question | recall |
| flash bulb memory | memory of stand-out events in someon's life |
| motivated forgetting and repressed memories | traumatic memories |
| abused as child | repressed memory |
| ebbinghouse | most forgetting occurs soon after we learn something |
| encoding failures | info. fails to be encoded into LTM |
| retrieval failures | proactive interference - info learned earlier interferes with info learned alter retroactive interference - info learned later interferes with info learned earlier |
| Decay theory | neuro chemical, memory trace, disintegrates over time |
| antegrade amnesia | have LTM, not have STM |
| autiobio | forms personal identity |
| memory saying | use it or lose it |
| atkinson-shiffrin theory | Sensory - fraction of a second to a few seconds short term - 30 seconds long term - life time |
| differences between recall and recognition, example of each, and which is better memory performance | recall is memory task retrieving previously learned info, ex essay question regonition is memory task have to identify learned items, ex multiple choice question. |
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