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Intro to Psych Ch. 7
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Sensory Memory | The part of memory that holds information in its original sensory form for a very brief period of time, usually about 1/2 a second or less |
| Short-Term | The part of memory that temporarily stores a limited amount of information before it is either transferred to long-term storage or forgotten |
| Working Memory | The part of the memory required to attend to and solve a problem at hand; often used interchangeably with short- term memory |
| How Short-Term Memory Works | 3 distinct processes attends to stimulus (Focus on the task at hand and develop a plan) Storing info about the stimulus (Taken in & sent to temporary storage) Phonological loop Visuospatial sketchpad Episodic buffer |
| The Serial Position Effect | When learning a list of items, it is easier to recall the items as the beginning and end of the list |
| Long-Term Memory | The part of memory that has the capacity to store a vast amount of info for as little as 30 sec or your entire lifetime |
| Types of Long-Term Memory | Implicit memory (How to ride a bike) Explicit (Where you left your car keys) |
| Implicit Memory | Memory made up of knowledge based on previous experience Able to recall automatically Contains procedural memory and priming Retrieved without effort |
| Explicit Memory | Knowledge that consists of the conscious recall of facts and events Requires effort in order to be retrieved |
| Stages in Long-Term Memory | Encoding Consolidation Storage Retrieval |
| Encoding | Process by which the brain attends to, takes in, and integrates new information Attention drives the encoding process (automatic or effortful) |
| Consolidation | Process of establishing, stabilizing, or solidifying a memory proteins are created for long-term memory information Sleep plays a huge role in this process |
| Amnesia | Memory Loss Caused by Brain Injury and Disease |
| Absent-mindedness | Forgetfulness due to inattention |
| Anterograde amnesia | Inability to remember events that occur after an injury or the onset of a disease |
| Blocking | The inability to retrieve some information once it is stored |
| Chunking | Grouping things together 4738291827 ---> (473)- 829- 1827 |
| Episodic memory | Recalls the experiences we have had |
| False memories | Memories for events that never happened, but were suggested by someone or something |
| Interference | Disruption of memory because other information competes with information we are trying to recall |
| Memory | The ability to store and use information; also to store what has been learned and memories |
| Mnemonic device | Used to remember things ROY G. BIV --> Used to remember the colors of the rainbow Creates visual or mental stroll to recall information |
| Priming | Implicit memory that occurs when recall is improved by prior exposure to the same or similar stimuli |
| Proactive interference | Disruption on memory because previously learned information interferes with the learning of new information |
| Procedural memory | Implicit knowledge for almost any behavior or physical skill we have learned |
| Recovered memory | Memory from a real event that was encoded, stored but not retrieved for a long period of time until some later event brings it to consciousness |
| Rehearsal | Cognitive process in which information is repeated over and over as a possible way of learning and remembering it |
| Repression | Unconscious act of keeping threatening thoughts, feelings or impulses out of consciousness |
| Retrieval | The recovery of information stored in memory The ease of retrieval and the time frame over which we can recall is determined by the previous stages of memory |
| Retroactive interference | Disruption of memory because new experiences or information causes people to forget previously learned experiences or information |
| Retrograde amnesia | Inability to recall events or experiences that happened before the onset of disease or injury |
| Schemas | Mental frameworks that develop from our experiences with particular people, objects, or events |
| Semantic memory | Recalls facts and general knowledge |
| Storage | Keeping memories or information in your brain |
| Three-stage model of memory | Classification of memories based on duration as sensory, short-term, and long- term |
| Hierarchies | A way for organization relating pieces of information from the most specific feature they have in common to most general |
| Short term memory capacity | differs for everyone 5-9 letters on average some struggle with 3 others can do 12 easily |
| Primacy effect | Beginning of the list |
| Recency effect | End of the list |
| Associative networks | A chain of associations between related concepts Associations bind concepts together |
| Suggestibility | Problem with memory that occurs when memories are implanted in our minds based on leading questions comments or suggestions by someone else or some other source |
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