Vocabulary | Tips for Becoming a Better Encoder | Encoding/Storage/Retrieval | Forgetting | Memory Construction |
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What is Automatic Processing
The unconscious process of encoding certain information without effort, such as space, time, and frequency
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What is Over-Learning
Continuing to rehearse even after information has been memorized
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What is Encoding
Getting information into the memory system
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What is Repression
The process of moving anxiety-producing memories to the unconscious mind
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What is Jigsaw Puzzle
Is your memory more like a CD or a jigsaw puzzle missing pieces?
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What is Method of Loci
When you associate items you want to remember with imaginary places
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What is Mnemonic Devices
Memory tricks that can create vivid images that you won't easily forget
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What is Semantic Encoding
Encoding of meaning
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What is the Misinformation Effect
Incorporationg misleading information into a memory of an event
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What is True
True of False:
Children are less accurate with their memories becasue they are more susceptible to suggestion. |
What is Short-Term Memory
A part of your memory system that contains information you are consciously aware of before it is stored more permanently or forgotten, aka working memory
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What is how to overcome the serial position effect
Devote extra rehearsal time to the middle of lists you must memorize
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What is Sensory Storage
Brief, initial coding of the sensory information in the memory system
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What is Retroactive Interference
When a more recent memory disrupts the recall of an older memory
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What is Inaccurate Memories
What is wrong with eye-witness testimoney?
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What are Proactive Interference and Retroactive Interference
Types of interference that deal with retrieval
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What are Rehearse, Overlearn, Serial Position Effect, Spacing Effect, Self-Reference Effect, Mnemonic Devices, and Chunking
What are the seven tips?
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What is Implicit Memory
Memory of skills and procedures, processed through cerebellum
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What is the Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve
You are more likely to forget information rapidly
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What is False
True or False:
Hypnosis, imagery, and dream analysis are accurate methods to uncover memories |
What is Permastore Memory
Long-term memories that are especially resistant to forgetting, will last a life time
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Who is Hermann Ebbinghaus
The nineteenth-century philosopher who taught us much of what we know about the importance of rehearsal
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What is Recalling Memories, Recognition of Memories, using the Context Effect, and using State Dependent Memory
What are the four ways to retrieve memories?
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What is Proactive Interference
If one day Joe was taught the word "there" and the next day he was taught "their" and couldn't remember the use for the second word, what type of interference would be occuring?
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Who is memory researcher Elizabeth Loftus
Who said we mentally construct our memories in a way that makes inaccuracies likely
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