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Psych Test 3

learning and memory

QuestionAnswer
Information Processing all cognitive and mental processes that occur in the brain
The 3 steps of the information process input, output, central processing
Input all the information we receive from our senses
Selective Attention the ability to pick and choose among the different available inputs
Feature Extraction involves locating the outstanding characteristics of incoming information
Output retrieving information/the ideas and actions that result from this processing
Recognition “oh yeah” syndrome, memory is organized in a way that makes recognition easy (multiple choice)
Confabulation when a person re-remembers parts of a memory/experience and fills in the gaps by making up the rest
Eidetic Memory “photographic memory”
4 Influences on ability to retrieve Meaningfulness, Association, Lack of Interference, Degree of original learning
Forgetting when information that once entered long term memory cant be retrieved
Amnesia loss of memory
Interference memory being blocked by previous or succeeding memories
Proactive Interference earlier memory does the blocking
Retroactive Interference later memory does the blocking
Repression subconscious blocking of memories that are painful, unpleasant or undesirable
Mnemonic Devices techniques for using associations to memorize information Ex: PEMDAS
Central Processing the “sorting and storing” of information in the brain
Memory the storage of inputs
Sensory storage holds info for only an instant at the receptors
Short-term memory holds info for approximately 20 seconds
Long-term memory any storage from 20-30 seconds on (indefinite)
Key to memory organization
Creativity ability to somehow, create something new, original and meaningful
Three types of memory sensory storage, short-term, long-term
NonDirected thinking free flow of thoughts through mind
Directed thinking deliberate and purposeful thinking
Recall the active reconstruction of information (short answer)
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