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| ordered lists (phone mumbers, SERIAL numbers) |
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| example- info for a test, (dates, terms) |
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| Paired-Associate Learning |
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| example- Foreign language flashcards |
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primacy- remembering first things well
recency- remembering most recent things well |
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| recall drops rapidly after practice. |
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| Information processing model |
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| The encoding, storage, and retrieval of memory |
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| Selection of information to store |
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| Information placed in memory |
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| Stored memories brought back to consiousness |
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| Shallow Processing (Maintenance Rehearsal) |
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| Simple repetition of material (not highly effective) |
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| Deep Processing (Elaborative Rehearsal) |
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| Form association between new material and material already stored |
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allows us a very short period of time to review the
overwhelming amount of sensory information |
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| Visual vs. Auditory sensory register |
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Visual: maintains an image of what we have seen for a few tenths of a second after the stimulus has appeared
VS.
Auditory:maintains the sounds we have heard for about 3 or 4 seconds after the stimulus |
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limited, relatively brief storage system for items we are
currently aware of/working with |
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(Short Term Memory)
Lasts about 18 seconds
About 7 items |
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Most Permanent Storage
includes:
-Episodic memory
-Semantic Memory
-Procedural memory |
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reserved for personally experienced events (e.g.
what you had for breakfast, first day of high school....) |
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general factual knowledge (e.g. temperature at
which water boils, math or physics equations, etc.) |
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related to skills or habits (e.g. how to brush teeth,
fix a flat tire, drive to friend’s house, etc.) |
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| Explicit/Declarative memory |
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| Implicit/ Non-declarative memory |
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| not consciously aware of (often procedural) |
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piecing together memories to fit a meaningful plan or
organization (can account for inaccuracy) |
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| improved retrieval when in same emotional or mental state that was present when material was rehearsed |
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