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GRE Psychology: Memory

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






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






3. 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






4. STM capacity of 7±2






5. Details - events - discrete knowledge






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






7. Sensory memory for auditory sensations






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






9. Repeating material to hold in STM






10. Knowing a fact






11. General knowledge of the world






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






13. Sensory - short term - long term






14. Allan Paivio - items better remembered if encoded both visually and semantically (icons/images+understanding)






15. 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)






16. Forgetting theory - memories fade with time






17. Capable of permanent retention - most learned semantically for meaning - measured by recognition - recall - and savings - Subject to encoding specificity principle - but not primacy/recency effects






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






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






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






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






22. Memories are stored diffusely in the brain






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






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






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






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






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






28. Organizing and understanding material to transfer to LTM






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






30. 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






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






32. Primary and recency effects






33. Grouping items can increase STM capacity






34. 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






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






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






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






38. Knowing how to do something






39. On the verge of retrieval






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






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






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






43. Photographic memory - more common in children and rural






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






45. Termed icon for brief visual memory






46. 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






47. Subjects more easily state the order of two items far apart on the list than two items close together - Comparing 7 & 597 vs. comparing 133 vs. 136






48. Decay (or trace) and interference theory






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






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







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