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GRE Psychology: Memory

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1. Recollections that seem burned into memory - especially traumatic ones






2. Memory involves changes in synpases and neural pathways to make a memory tree






3. Sensory memory for auditory sensations






4. Knowing something and being consciously aware of knowing it - such as knowing a fact






5. Anything one might recall is easily recognized - multiple-choice test is easier than essay test






6. Tendency to recall pursued but incomplete tasks better than completed ones - Students who suspend their study - during which they do unrelated activities (such as studying unrelated subjects or playing games) - will remember material better than stud






7. Learning and recall depend on depth of processing; from most superficial phonological (pronunciation) to deep semantic level - the deeper the easier to learn and recall






8. Memory cues that aid learning and recall (e.g. OCEAN for the Big Five factors of personality...)






9. Knowing something without being aware of knowing it 'HM' --> cannot remember anything he did






10. Serial learning Serial-anticipation learning Paired-associate learning Free-recall learning






11. Patient 'HM' lesion of hippocampus - remembered things before surgery - STM intact - but could not store new LTMs (anterograde amnesia)






12. By studying sea slug Aplysia - similar ideas to Donald Hebb involving synaptic and neural pathway changes in memory; young chicks brains are altered with learning and memory






13. Learned and recalled in order; primacy and recency effects; serial-position U-curve demonstrates savings






14. Knowing how to do something






15. Repeating material to hold in STM






16. Decay (or trace) and interference theory






17. Temporary - seconds or minutes - largely auditory - items coded phonologically - 7+/- 2 capacity - chunking - subjective to interference and inhibition






18. Requires subjects to recognize things learned in the past - Multiple choice test






19. Details - events - discrete knowledge






20. Knowing a fact






21. Memory of traumatic events altered by event and by the phrasing of questions (e.g. 'how fast were the cars going when they crashed' vs 'what was the rate of the cars upon impact'); relevant in law-psychology such as witness testimony






22. Acoustic dissimilarity - semantic dissimilarity - brevity - familiarity - concreteness - meaning - importance to subject






23. Tendency to group similar items in memory whether learned together or not - often into conceptual or semantic hierarchies






24. Iconic memory people could see more than they can remember






25. Recall without any cue






26. Proactive interference causes proactive inhibition - retroactive interference causes retroactive inhibition






27. Similar to serial learning but asked to recall one item at a time






28. Measured through presenting subjects with items they are not supposed to try to memorize - then test for learning






29. Photographic memory - more common in children and rural






30. Grouping items can increase STM capacity






31. Forgetting theory - memories fade with time






32. Recall begins with task Ex: fill-in-the-blank' test






33. Temporary memory needed to perform the task that someone is working on at that moment






34. Forgetting theory - competing information blocks retrieval (study: memorize list - one group sleeps while other group solves riddles for same amount of time - slept is likelier to remember more)






35. Disrupting information that was learned after new items were presented






36. Key to transferring items to LTM; primary (maintenance) rehearsal - secondary (elaborative) rehearsal






37. Termed icon for brief visual memory






38. Disrupting information that was learned prior to new items were presented






39. Measures how much info remains in LTM (information retention) by assessing how long it takes to learn something the second time






40. STM capacity of 7±2






41. Instrument used to present visual material (words/images) to subjects for a fraction of a second - in cognitive or memory experiments






42. Memories are stored diffusely in the brain






43. Used when studying foreign languages - we pair that language word with English word






44. Forgetting curve; lists of nonsense syllables to study STM






45. It takes longer to make association between pictures than between words --> Pictures must be mentally put into words before associations can be made






46. General knowledge of the world






47. Retrieval is better if in the same emotional or physical state as encoding - depressed individuals cannot easily recall happy memories - alcoholics often remember details of their last drinking session only when under the influence of alcohol






48. Primary and recency effects






49. LTM is subject to...material is easier to be remembered if retrieved in same context as learning/storage






50. Sensory - short term - long term