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GRE Psychology: Memory

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1. Knowing a fact






2. Organizing and understanding material to transfer to LTM






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






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






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






6. Termed icon for brief visual memory






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






8. 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)






9. General knowledge of the world






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






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






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






13. STM capacity of 7±2






14. 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






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






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






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






18. Sensory - short term - long term






19. Memories are stored diffusely in the brain






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






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






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






23. 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






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






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






26. Sensory memory for auditory sensations






27. 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






28. 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






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






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






31. Knowing how to do something






32. On the verge of retrieval






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






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. Repeating material to hold in STM






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






37. Recall without any cue






38. Generate information on their own; cued and free






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. Details - events - discrete knowledge






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






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






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






49. Photographic memory - more common in children and rural






50. Primary and recency effects