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most important in taking in information
hunger/thirst/biological needs
strange
interests
selective attention
decide what to attend to
feature extraction
details of selective attention
ways to remember easier
repeating
association
catagory
story
3 ways information is stored
sensory storage
short term
long term
Sensory storage
only as long as you need it to stay
serial position effect
-in short term
- 1st and last items on list but not middle
-rehearsal
-chunking
long term memory
declarative
procedural
declarative memory
-long term
- semantic
-episodic
-conscious
Semantic
-declarative
-memory of words and what they mean
Episodic
-declarative
-events in your life
Procedural Memory
procedure we do
-skills
-priming
-conditioning
-subconscious
Priming
-procedural memory
-makes it easier to do another (languages)
Conditioning
training becomes automatic
Memory Quirk
Confabulation
edetic memory
Confabulation
-memory quirk
-filling in gaps of memory
edetic memory
-memory quirk
-photographic memory
-2-15% of school children only 40 seconds
Retrieving Information
Recognition
Recall
Edetic
Recognition
-retrieving info
-identify when you see it
-multiple choice
-matching
-true false
-fill in blank with word bank
Recall
-retrieving info
-fill in blank
-essay
-short answer
-speech
-drawing
-demonstration
Memory interference
Proactive
Retroactive
Proactive Interference
old memory getting in the way of remembering new memories (addresses)
Retroactive Interference
New memory blocks older memory
information processing
encoding
storage
retrieval
three types of memory based on length of storage
sensory
short
long
three ways to encode verbal information
visual, acoustic, semantic
acoustic information
encoding of sound
self reference effect
when you recall info about yourself it can help with learning b/c if you relate something to yourself you might be able to remember it more.
hierarchies
dividing concepts so its easier to retrieve the information
Iconic
see an image of what we were just looking at but only for a few tenths of a second
Echoic
if not paying attention you can remember the last couple of words only for a few seconds (3/4)
Positive Transfer
Old and new information compete with each other that interference occurs
repression
protect ourself concept and minimize anxiety we repress painful memories and push into unconsciousness
Misinformation effect
as we recount an experience we fill in memory gaps with plausible guesses and assumptions
methods you can improve your memory
study repeatedly
more time rehearsing
minimize interference
mneumonic devices
Author
taytay622
ID
56409
Card Set
Memory Quiz
Description
psych
Updated
2010-12-16T02:58:15Z
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