Chapter 6 defintions
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| Memory | show 🗑
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| show | the process of converting information into a form that can be stored in memory
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| Encoding | show 🗑
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| show | retaining information in memory
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| show | bringing to mind information stored in memory
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| show | coded by sound: auditory signals into strings of recognizable sound
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| show | coded by forming a mental picture: memorizing a person
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| Encoding: Semantically | show 🗑
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| Memory Storage | show 🗑
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| Memory Retrieval | show 🗑
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| show | cues associated with the original learning that facilitate the retrieval of memories- cues associated with the situation in which the memories were originally formed
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| show | a model of memory that posits three distinct stages of memory: sensory, short term, long term
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| show | the storage system that holds memory of sensory impressions for a very short time: fraction of a second to 3 or 4 seconds
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| show | a temporary storage device for holding sensory memories- sensory impression disappears and is replaced by the next one
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| Iconic Memory | show 🗑
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| Eidetic Imagery | show 🗑
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| show | a sensory store for holding a mental representation of a sound for a few seconds after it registers in the ears ex: sound of an ambulance
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| Short Term Memory (STM) | show 🗑
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| show | as the memory system permitting both short-term retention of information and manipulation of that information
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| Chunking | show 🗑
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| Maintenance Rehearsal | show 🗑
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| Long Term Memory (LTM) | show 🗑
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| Consolidation | show 🗑
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| Elaborative Rehearsal | show 🗑
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| Semantic Network Model | show 🗑
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| Spreading Activation | show 🗑
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| Levels of Processing Theory | show 🗑
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| Two Types of Long Term Memory: | show 🗑
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| show | Knowing that
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| show | Knowing how
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| Declarative memory/Explicit memory | show 🗑
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| Semantic Memory | show 🗑
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| show | memory of personal experiences-not limited to humans
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| show | memory of past experiences or events and previously acquired information
o Where you went to school, what you learned there
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| show | memory of things one plans to do in the future
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| show | memory of how to do things that require motor or performance skills- no conscious effort
o Ride a bike, climb stairs, tie shoes
o Motor or performance skills that cannot be explained in words easily
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| Implicit Memory | show 🗑
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| Explicit Memory | show 🗑
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| show | a theory that holds that memory is not a replica of the past but a representation, or reconstruction of the past
o Overtime a memory can become so distorted that it becomes a false memory
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| Schema | show 🗑
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| Flashbulb Memories | show 🗑
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| show | a form of memory distortion that affects eyewitness testimony and that is caused by misinformation provided during the retention interval
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| show | a theory of forgetting that posits(suggests) the memories consist of traces laid down in the brain that gradually deteriorate and fade away overtime
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| Ebbinghaus | show 🗑
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| Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve | show 🗑
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| show | a method of testing memory retention by comparing the numbers of trails needed to learn material with the number of trials needed to relearn the material at a later time
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| show | the tendency for retention of learned material to be greater with spaced practice than with massed practice
o Retain more when you spread out your study sessions
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| Decay Theory Weakness | show 🗑
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| show | the belief that forgetting is the result of the interference of memories with each other
o Likely to forget your dinner since you eat every day, less likely to forget wedding
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| show | a form of interference in which newly acquired information interferes with retention of material learned earlier
Info you learned in 9 o’clock class fades by the next class
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| show | a form of interference in which material learned earlier interferes with retention of newly acquired information
Forgetting area code, writing wrong year when writing a check
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| show | the tendency to recall items at the start or end of a list better than the items in the middle of the list
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| Primacy Effect | show 🗑
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| Recency Effect | show 🗑
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| Retrieval Theory | show 🗑
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| Tip of the Tongue (TOT) | show 🗑
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| show | In Freudian theory, a type of defense mechanism involving motivated forgetting of anxiety-evoking material
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| show | such as an essay question, you are asked to reproduce info you have committed to memory
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| show | a type of recall task in which individuals are asked to recall as many stored items as possible in any order
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| show | asked to recall a series of items or numbers in a particular order
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| Paired Recall | show 🗑
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| show | loss of memory
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| show | loss of memory of past events
o Interferes with memory consolidation
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| show | loss or impairment of the ability to form or store new memories
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| show | blows to the head, degenerative brain diseases (Alzheimer’s), blockage of blood vessels to the brain, infectious diseases, chronic alcoholism
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| show | a psychologically based form of amnesia involving the “Splitting off” from memory of traumatic or troubling experiences
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| show | Lashley’s term for the physical trace or etching of memory in the brain
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| show | memory circuits in the brain that consist of complicated networks of nerve cells – esp cerebral cortex
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| Hippocampus | show 🗑
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| show | damage can result in amnesia
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| show | plays an important part in encoding emotional experiences
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| show | the long term strengthening of neural connections as the result of repeated stimulation
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| Recognition Task | show 🗑
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