Psychology memory
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- Recollecting events, experiences
- MEMORY
- that of a specific even
- EPISODIC
- remember things in great detail such as tragic events
- FLASHBULB
- based on general knowledge
- GENERIC
- based on a performance or an action
- PROCEDURAL
- taking in the information
- ENCODING
- hearing code
- ACOUSTIC
- Give meaning to things
- SEMANTIC CODE
- give an example of a semantic code
- OTTFFSSENT
- repeating things over and over
- MAINTENANCE REHEARSAL
- try to relate it to something you know
- ELABORATIVE REHEARSAL
- system of things in our brain where we organize it
- ORGANIZATIONAL SYSTEM
- you will remember things better if you are in the same places when you remember them
- CONTEXT DEPENDENT
- the same mood or the same state of mind you're in
- STATE DEPENDENT
- right there but you can't think of it...you just a clue to remember it
- TIP OF THE TONGUE
- only a split second
- SENSORY MEMORY
- a visual image that we form and lasts for a half of a second without rehearsal
- ICON
- where visual stimuli are held
- ICONIC MEMORY
- a mental trace of a sound and lasts for 2 seconds without rehearsal
- ECHO
- where sound stimuli are held
- ECHOIC MEMORY
- flash up letter for a short period of time and then have a high, medium, or low tone and then you were supposed to say the line
- TACHISTOSCOPE
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5-9 items in memory
20 seconds - SHORT TERM / WORKING MEMORY
- if somebody says something about you or about something you liek you would be able to tune them in even though you are not a part of their conversation
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SELECTIVE ATTENTION
"COCKTAIL PARTY PHENOMENON" - when you i.d. something for a specific reason
- FEATURE EXTRACTION
- you remember the beginning and ends of lists better or whatever you are studying
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RECALL
SERIAL POSITION EFFECT - remembering the beginning
- PRIMACY
- remembering the end
- RECENCY
- where you group things together
- CHUNKING
- things interfere and make you forget
- INTERFERENCE
- new learning interferes with old learning
- RETROACTIVE
- when old learning interferes with new learning
- PROACTIVE
- photographic memory
- EIDETIC MEMORY
- the mind of the amidst. couldn't forget things. used stories
- A. R. LURIA
- mental representation that we form of the world by organizing bits of information into knowledge.
- SCHEMAS
- showed a car accident and asked how fast cars went and changed VERB each time
- LOFTUS AND PALMER
- when mind fills in the gaps to construct memories
- CONFABULATION
- if you don't practice something you're going to forget it
- HERMAN EBBINGHAUS
- how many people you know, recognize the people
- RECOGNITION
- try to think about someone's name, very difficult to do
- RECALL
- go back, not have, to be taught it, need to review it, comes back to you if you've learned it very well
- RELEARNING
- over time our memory just goes away
- DECAY THEORY
- partially pay attention
- INATTENTION
- motivated forgetting, usually something traumatic (accident), abusive situation, forget things on purpose, BLOCK IT OUT
- REPRESSION
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when you forget things
long or short term due to an injurty - AMNESIA
- when you forget htings before the injurty or disease
- RETROGRADE
- when you have amnesia based on a blow to the head
- POST TRAUMATIC
- same as repression, motivated forgetting
- HYSTERICAL
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when a person takes on a new identity
(muppets to find kermit {phil}) - FUGUE STATE
- causes of amnesia
- DRUGS, ILLNESS, ALCOHOL ABUSE
- see something disturbing
- SHOCK
- traumatic, block things out
- REPRESSION
- sigmund freud belived in this, believed you don't have memories before the age of 3
- INFANTILE AMNESIA
- in the brain, responsible for memory
- HIPPOCAMPUS
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ROYGBV - mnemonic device
- a phenomenon, can't prove it, already seen, dealing with memory
- DEJA VU