AP Psychology Exam Reivew

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AP Psychology Exam Reivew

• Unit Memory

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Information Processing Model
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Encoding
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Sensory memory
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Effortful processing

• Rehearsal
• Hermann Ebbinghaus
• Forgetting curve
• Retention curve
• spacing effect
• Meaning
• Chunking 555-1212

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Serial position effect

• Primacy effect first
• Recency effect last

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Encoding imagery

• Visualization
• Mnemonic method of loci
• peg word

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Organization
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Forgetting sensory memory

• Encoding failure
• Inattention
• Storage decay

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Short-term memory

• Working memory
• 7 /- 2
• Duration several seconds (3 sec. to 2 minutes)

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Forgetting short-term memory

• Encoding failure
• Inattention
• Storage decay

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Long-term memory

• Unlimited capacity (100s of gigabits)
• Unlimited duration (a lifetime)
• Long-term potentiation LPT

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Types of long-term memory
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Brain and memory
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Retrieval

• Recall
• Recognition
• Retrieval cues
• Priming
• Context effects déjà vu all over again
• Mood-congruent

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Memory construction

• Misinformation effect
• Elizabeth Loftus
• Eyewitness testimony

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Forgetting

• Storage decay
• Sleep deprivation
• Motivated forgetting
• face saving
• repression
• False memory syndrome
• Interference
• Proactive interference
• Retroactive interference

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Amnesia

• Source amnesia (source misattribution)
• Age
• childhood amnesia

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Improving memory

• Overlearning
• Spaced practice
• Personal meaning
• Mnemonic devices
• Refresh your memory
• Minimize interference
• Self test