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GRE Psychology: Memory

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1. Repeating material to hold in STM






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






3. 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






4. 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






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






6. The way behaviourists explain memory; one item learned with - then cues the recall of - another






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






8. Termed icon for brief visual memory






9. Ebbinghaus - sharp drop in savings immediately after learning then levels off downwards; but some psychologists doubt generalization from nonsense syllables






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






11. Recall without any cue






12. General knowledge of the world






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






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






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






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






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






18. When subjects are exposed to bright flash or new pattern before the iconic image fades - the 1st image will be erased






19. Coined by Neisser - --> brief visual memory that lasts about one second






20. 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






21. Knowing a fact






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






23. Primary and recency effects






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






25. Sperling - sensory memory for vision - people could see more than they can remember - a partial report in an experiment involving random letters showed people forgot other letters by the time they wrote first ones down






26. Photographic memory - more common in children and rural






27. 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






28. The first and last few items learned are easiest to remember. first items are due to the benefit of most rehearsal and exposure. last item is easy to remember because there has been less time for decay






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






30. Dual code hypothesis






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






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






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






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






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






36. Last seconds - connects perception and memory - includes iconic and echoic memory






37. Memory is reconstructive rather than rote - People are more likely to remember ideas/semantics more than details/grammar






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






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






40. Sensory - short term - long term






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






42. 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)






43. STM capacity of 7±2






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






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






46. Details - events - discrete knowledge






47. A list of items is learned - and then must be recalled in any order with no cue.






48. On the verge of retrieval






49. Sensory memory for auditory sensations






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







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