Memory

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Memory
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Three Kinds of Memory

• Episodic
• Specific event
• flashbulb
• Semantic
• Explicit
• Implicit

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Three Processes of Memory

• Encoding
• Visual
• Acoustic
• Semantic
• Storage
• Maintenance Rehearsal
• Elaborative Rehearsal
• Organizational Systems
• Retrieval
• Context dependent memory
• State dependent memory
• On the tip of your tongue

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Three Stages of Memory

• Sensory
• Short term memory
• Long term memory

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Sensory Memory

• Iconic
• Eidetic imagery
• Echoic memory

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Short-Term Memory

• Short-term Memory- memory system that retains
  information for a few seconds to a few minutes.

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Long-term Memory

• Long-term Memory- memory system that retains
  information for hours, days, weeks, months or
  decades

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Transition from STM to LTM

• Primacy Effect
• Recency effect
• Chunking
• interference

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• ABCCBSAAAMTVUSANBCCNN

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• ABC CBS AAA MTV USA NBC CNN

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View of Memory

• As reconstruction
• Schemas

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Capacity and Limits to your memory

• How much can it hold?
• How long do we remember it?

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Basic Memory Tasks

• Recognition
• Recall
• relearning

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Forgetting

• Why do we forget?
• Decay
• Repression

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Amnesia

• Amnesia- the blocking of older memories and the
  loss of new ones
• -Getting hit on the head
• -Electric Shock
• - Major Trauma

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Explaining Amnesia

• Explanations for Amnesia-
• Hit on the head could temporarily stop blood flow
• Hit on the head could mix up brains electrical
  charges

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Types of Amnesia

• Amnesia
• Retrograde
• Anterograde
• transient global amnesia
• Infantile

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Improving Memory

• Drill and Practice
• Relate to existing Knowledge
• Form Unusual associations
• Mnemonic devices