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What is declarative memory?
Memories for facts or events, such as scenes, stories, words, conversations, faces or daily events. We are aware of and can recall these kinds of memories.
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What is a cognitive interview?
Technique for questioning people by having them imagine and reconstruct the details.
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What does storing mean?
Process of placing encoded information into permanent mental storage for later recall.
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Repression
According to Freud, a mental process that automatically hides emotionally threatening information in the unconscious. (can't be voluntarily recalled)
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Network Theory
Theory that we store related ideas in separate memory categores. As we make associations we create links.
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Photographic memory
Ability to form sharp, detailed visual images after examining a picture or page for a short period.
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Recognition
Identification of previously learned information with the help of external clues.
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Method of loci
Mnemonic device that improves encoding by creating visual associates between memorized places and new items to be memorized.
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Echoic memory
Sensory memory that holds auditory information for 1-2 seconds.
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Short term memory
Can hold limited amount of information, appox 7 items for 20-30 seconds. Sometimes called working memory.
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Interference
The forgetting process, recall of a memory is blocked by new information that overwrites or interferes with it.
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chunking
Combining separate items of information into a larger unit then remembering chunks of information rather than individual items.
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Tip of the tongue phenomenon
Despite making a great effort, we are temporarily unable to recall information that we absolutely know is in our memory.
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Forgetting
Inability to retrieve information that was stored or is still stored in long term memory.
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Network Hierarchy
Concrete ideas are at the bottom of the heirarchy and are connected to more abstract ideas located above them. Most abstract ideas are at the top.
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Recall
Retrieval of previously learned information without the aid of or with very few external cues.
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Encoding
Storing information in memory by making mental representations.
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Iconic Memory
Form of sensory memory that holds visual information for a quarter of a second (Icon means Image)
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Long Term Memory
Can store unlimited amounts of information over long periods of time.
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Procedural Memory
Memories of performing motor or perceptual tasks (playing sports). We cannot retrieve these memories and we are not conscious of them.
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Retrieving
Recalling information that has been places into short term or long term storage.
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Semantic Memory
Declarative memory consisting of factual knowledge about the world.
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Amnesia
Memory loss that may occur after damage to the brain.
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Nodes
Memory files that contain related information organized around a specific topic.
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