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Exam 2 cognitive psy
Chapter 5, Brooklyn college, professor Stan
Question | Answer |
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Sensory memory | When something is presented briefly, such as a face illuminated by a flash, your perception continuos even after a fraction of a second in the dark -the brief perception of the image is called |
Control process | encoding and rehersal retrival- Rachel repeats the phone number of the pizzeria- she can relate digits to her family.-Rachel has encode the number, to later retrieve it |
Persistence of Vision | when you retain the perception of light in your mind for half a fraction seconds after it is presented ,this is called |
Echoic memory | sounds that persist in the mind! When someone says what? and you are about to repeat it to them but they get the message a second delayed |
Proactive interference | When old leraning interferes with new learning, you are learning French but you are a native Spanish speaker, this is called |
Retroactive interference | When new learning interferes with remembering old learning , When you cant recall the Spanish word because you have learn the English word for it; |
Working memory | being given numbers in random order and reordering to repeat them |
Short-term memory | repeating the numbers to be able to make a phone call- five to seven items |
The visual-spatial sketchpad | You are able to navigate and form pictures in your mind because It holds visual and spatial information |
Perseveration | Frontal lobe patient, performing same action, or thought even if it's not achieving a goal. Has a new task of picking red instead of blue , but keeps picking blue.. |
The role of the prefrontal cortex in memory | memory- visual- delays- |
Disrupting control processes | articulary suppression when, rehersal is difficult do to added things suchs as the the the |
Mind reading and FMRI | person is submitted to braib scaning to reveal differences and thoutghs |
Semantic memory | Long term memory about memories of facts, such as address, names, and objects |
Long term memory about past events | episodic and procedural |
Episodic memory | remembering a picnic from ten years ago! |
Procedural memory | remembering how to do things , such as riding a bike! |
iconic memory/visual icon | stimuli enters our sensory memory for a brief second and decays within a second. |
Central executive | its mission is not to store information but to coordinate how to use it |