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7 Memory

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• Memory   Active system that stores, organizes, alters, and recovers (retrieves) information  
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• Encoding   Processing of information into the memory system  
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• Storage   Holding this information in memory for later use  
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• Retrieval   Taking memories out of storage  
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• Working memory   Part of STM; like a mental ‘notepad’  
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• Phonetically   Storing information by sound; how most things are stored in STM  
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• Digit span   Test of attention and short-term memory; string of numbers is recalled forward or backward  
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• Magic number 7 (±2)   STM is limited to holding seven (plus or minus two) information bits at once  
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• Information bit   Meaningful single piece of information, like numbers or letters  
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• Recoding   Reorganizing or modifying information to assist storage in memory  
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• Information chunks   Bits of information that are grouped into larger units  
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• Elaborative encoding / rehearsal   Links new information with existing memories and knowledge in long-term memory (LTM)  
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• Pseudo-memories   False memories that a person believes are true or accurate  
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• Procedural (skilled)   Long-term memories of conditioned responses and learned skills and can be fully expressed only as actions (e.g., driving)  
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• Declarative (fact)   Part of LTM that contains factual information  
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• Semantic memory   Includes impersonal facts and everyday knowledge. It serves as a mental dictionary or encyclopaedia of basic knowledge  
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• Episodic memory   Includes personal experiences linked with specific times and places. They are about the “who”, “what”, “where” and “when” of our lives and make it possible for us to mentally travel back in time and re-experience events.  
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• Recognition memory   Where previously learned material is correctly identified  
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• Distractors   False items included with a correct item  
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• False positive   False sense of recognition that you think is right but is actually wrong  
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• Explicit memory   Past experiences that are consciously brought to mind. Recall, recognition, and tests rely on explicit memory  
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• Implicit memory   A memory not known to exist; lies outside of awareness. A memory that is unconsciously retrieved (something you didn’t know you knew)  
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• Retroactive interference   Tendency for new memories to interfere with retrieval of old memories, eg., sleeping after study can help retain memories but reading, writing, watching TV may cause interference  
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• Proactive interference   Prior learning inhibits (interferes with) recall of later learning  
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• Repression   Unconsciously pushing painful, embarrassing, or threatening memories out of awareness/ consciousness  
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• Suppression   Consciously putting something painful or threatening out of mind or trying to keep it from entering awareness  
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• Retrograde amnesia   Forgetting events that occurred before an injury or trauma  
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• Anterograde amnesia   Forgetting events that follow an injury or trauma  
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• Consolidation   The process of forming a long-term memory in the brain. This takes time.  
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• Hippocampus   Brain structure associated with emotion and transfer of information passing from short-term memory into long-term memory  
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