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-Anterograde Amnesia
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-This is where one's memory of what happened after the amnesia.
-Where you forget things that happened a long time ago (before amnesia)
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| What are the causes of Alzheimer's |
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-Getting it from genetics
-Loss of plaques among chlonergic neurons |
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| Who was Herman Ebbinghaus? |
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| -A man who was the first to study memory. Used himself as a subject and memorized nonsense syllables(so he wouldn't have ease with any of them just in case he had seen them before, etc.) for years. |
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A strategy for remembering information. Taking each of the first letters of the words you have to remember and forming a sentence using the first letters. For example:
DKPCOFGS:Did King phillip come over from germany saturday (domain, kingdom, phyllum, class, order, family, genus, species) |
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-Encoding Specificity
-If you put yourself in the same conditions that you were when storing a memory, then you will have more ease with retrieving the memory . |
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| If you use the same strategy you first used to store a memory when trying to remember it, then you will have more ease at remembering the information. |
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| When stating the answer to something is regarded as a product of memory. |
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| memory that influences what you do even though you're not aware of it (ex: using the same words you heard in another conversation you're trying not to listen. they may not even make any sense) |
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-memories of motor skills (you can't really explain them in words but you have memory of how to do them physically)
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| -Memories we can state in words (unlike ones that you can't explain and can just remember how to do them physically) |
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| Information-processing Model/Atkinson Schiffin Model |
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Compares human memory to that of a computer. The memories are processed, coded, and stored.
We only remember a few things from sensory memory. Some of this turns into short-term memory. Short-term memory becomes long-term memory if rehearsed and different environmental cues help bring up those long-term memories. |
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| Semantic Memories (vs. Episodic Memories) |
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-Memories of facts and principles
-Are much less fragile than memories of events in your life. |
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| Episodic Memories (vs. Semantic Memories) |
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-Memories of events in your life
-They are more fragile than the memory that involves remembering facts. |
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| Forgetting where or how you learned something (might hear a rumor and remember it more than who you heard it from, etc.) |
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| Memory that is not necessarily new to you and that will probably not be stored in long-term memory (even though short-term memory does all of these things). It is just memory that helps you with a task you need to do at the moment but that you will forget later (the score to a game your'e watching) |
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| converting a short-term memory into a long term memory |
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-Phonological loop
-Visuospatial sketchpad |
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-Part of working memory; stores and rehearses speech information (like remembering what was at the beginning of a sentence so that you can connect it with the end of the sentence)
-Part of working memory; stores and rehearses visual memories (you use it to remember images and to see items from another angle in your head) |
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Retroactive/Primary Effect
Proactive/Recency Effect |
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-Old memories interfere with new ones/increased memory of the first thing you learned
-New memories interfere with new ones/increased memory of what you last learned |
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| Types of psychogenic amnesia and explain them |
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-Repressive-Where you only remember what is most important to you and you forget other things (like you remember your birthday but forget other people's because yours is most important to you.)
-Distortion-Where you try to forget something that was sad or unsatisfactory. |
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| -This is another way of naming motivated forgetting |
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| What things cause people to forget? |
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-Motivated Forgetting/psychogenic amnesia
-Interference (proactive and retroactive)
-Decay
-Never rehearsed while in short term memory |
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| -a mnemonic device that associates different places with things you want to remember |
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