Cog Psych Chapter 7
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Maintenance Rehearsal | used to help maintain short term memory but is not very effective at transferring the information to long term |
| Elaborative Rehearsal | When you think of an item and then make connections between the item and something that you know. Example: Trying to memorize the letters UGH you would think of the University of Guelph-Humber. It can also be when you think of the meaning of the thing you are memorizing: Example: memorizing the letters VCR you would think of a VCR player. |
| Levels of processing | how things are encoded deeper then others. Memory depends on how much information is programmed into your mind. |
| Forming Visual Images & Paired Associate Learning | Bowen and Winzez |
| Linking Words to Yourself: | Rogers. You're more likely to recall the words you link to yourself example: memorizing the word "happy". Describe how you feel? Happy. |
| Generation Effect | Graf. Example: King-cr_____ king-grown. Those who had to fill in the blank were more likely to memorize the first word then those who simply read it. |
| Organizing Information | Think of it as folders on your laptop. You have folders for pictures, folders for different classes. Your memory works similarly. |
| Free Recall | when you recall the stimuli just from being asked |
| Cued Recall | presented with retrieval cues that help recall the previously experienced stimuli example: for example trying to recall bird someone might say blue jay, cardinal, sparrow. Can act as verbal hints. |
| Encoding Specifify | we encode information along with the context Example: if you study drinking coffee you should write your test drinking coffee |
| State-Dependent Learning | Learning associated with an internal state such as mood or state of awareness. Example: Eich and Metcalfe demonstrated memory is better when a person's mood matches their encoding mood. |
| Transfer Appropriate Processing | memory performance is enhanced if the type of task at encoding matches the type of task at retrieval example: if you are told to write out the words on a list you're more likely to memorize them if you have to write them out again. |
| Long Term Potentiation | enhances the firing of neurons after repeated stimulation. Memory does not occur in one particular place in the brain. |
| Medial Temporal Lobe | area of the brain that helps with memory. Includes the perihinial cortex, parahippocampal cortex, extorhinal cortex, and hippocampus. The hippocampus is crucial for forming long term memories. |
| Systems Consolidation | involves the gradual reorganization of circuits within brain regions and takes place over weeks, months or years |
| synaptic consolidation | happens rapidly over a few minutes. |
| Standard Model of Consolidation | proposes that memory retrieval depends on the hippocampus during consolidation but that once consolidation is complete retrievals no longer depends on the hippocampus. |
| Multi Trace Hypothesis | the hippocampus is involved in the retrieval of remote memories especially those of episodic memories (Nadel and Moskovitch). |
| treatment conditions for PTSD | Memories can be susceptible to disruption when they are reactivated for retrieval but after reactivation these memories must be reconsolidated. Recent experiments have provided evidence for reconsolidation in humans and for the usefulness in reconsolidation therapy |
| How to study more effectively | • Elaborate • Generate and test • Organize • Take breaks • Match learning and testing conditions • Avoid "illusions of learning" |
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