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Describe Memory
R.S.O.A.R. |
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| receiving, storing, organizing, altering, and recovering information |
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| What are the three levels of memory? |
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Sensory Memory
Short-term memory
Long-term memory |
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| Describe the Atkinsons-Schiffrin model |
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| shows how memories are made |
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| What are the three steps, in order, of what happens to a information |
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1. Encoded
2. Stored
3. Retrieved |
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| holds information for a few seconds |
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| storing images for a few seconds |
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| Holding sounds for a few seconds |
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Describe Short-term memory
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| holds info for a short amount of time |
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| What is the term for using STM to perform actions? |
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| Describe Long-term memory |
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| Describe the purpose of Chunking |
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| it puts information into bits that can be stored in LTM |
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| Describe Maintenance Rehearsal |
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| Review/repeat information to hold it in STM |
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| storing information into LTM by repetition |
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| Describe Elaborative Encoding |
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| Putting meaning to information |
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| Describe Constructive Processing |
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| Updating memory because of new information |
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| What does the Network Model involve? Describe it |
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LTM
network of linked memories |
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| One memory serves as a cue to trigger another. |
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| What are the two types of LTM? |
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1. Procedural
2. Declarative |
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| Describe Procedural Memory |
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| Remembering basic elements of conditioned responses and learned skills |
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In the LTM
Holds basic knowledge
(To Know) |
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Describe Episodic memory
what does it allow? |
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(To Remember)
Where you were, what you did
allows for reminiscing |
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| Describe the Serial Position Effect |
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| Not remembering the middle of a sequence |
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| Learning something that you already learned |
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| Memories that are consciously known |
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| Describe Implicit memories |
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| memories that are unconsciously known |
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| Using redintegration to retrieve an implicit memory |
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| Describe the Curve of Forgetting |
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| We forget a lot at first, then a little later |
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| Describe Encoding Failure |
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| Nerve cells and brain activity change when memory is stored |
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| memories weaken when memory traces weaken |
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| Describe State-dependent learning |
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| learning in a certain state |
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Describe Interference
Two kinds? |
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New memories impair retrieval of old memories
1. Retroactive Interference
2. Proactive Interference |
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| Describe Retroactive Interference |
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| New Memories stop retrieval of old memories |
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| Describe Proactive Interference |
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| Old memories stops new info from being stored |
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| Describe Positive and Negative Transfer |
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Positive=using one skill to help with another
negative=one skill not helping with another |
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| Describe retrograde Amnesia |
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| Forgetting events that occurred before trauma |
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| Describe Anterograde Amnesia |
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| Forgetting events that occurred after amnesia |
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| Describe Electroconvulsive Shock |
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| What happens if the Hippocampus is damaged? |
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| Describe flashbulb memories |
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remembering information from a high emotional state
vivid but not always accurate |
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Where is Declarative memory stored?
two subcategories? |
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Cerebral Cortex
episodic=front
semantic=back |
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| Where is Procedural memory stored? |
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remembering a mental image to use as a source
common for kids |
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