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3. Long-Term Memory
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- 1What are the four things the long-term memory keepsIdentity
Autobiographical (personal history)
Semantics (knowledge of the world)
Procedures (skills) - 2What are the 3 Long-Term memory processesConsolidation
Storage
Modes of Retrieval - 3Define ConsolidationRepeated exposure and learning leads to permanent memory traces
- 4Define StorageEvery type of conscious experience can be committed to Long-Term memory
- 5What are the two modes of retrievalExplicit
Implicit - 6What does the Explicit memory keepSemantic facts
Episodic events - 7Define Episodic MemoryReflects situations/events and autobiographical information
- 8What are the two types of coding for the episodic memorySelf-referential
- 9Define self-referential encodingInformation is encoded in relation to observer
- 10Define context-dependant encodingInformation is inter-related & embedded
multiple events can be recalled as part of one memory - 11What can improve recall of episodic memoryRe-instating and re-experiencing context of event
- 12In semantic memory, what are used as superstructures of knowledgeSchema's
Scripts - 13How do you access knowledge through the semantic memorythrough levels of proccessing
- 14What can speed of semantic memory access tell you abouthow the knowledge is organised
- 15Define Quillian's heirarchial model of semantic knowledgeHeirarchial network of interrelated concepts
- 16Define conceptsobjects with attributes
- 17Define interrelatedobjects with overlapping attributes
- 18Define Heirarchicalobjects inherit the attributes of general objects to which they are related
- 19Explain Collins & Quillian's evidence for the heirarchial model of semantic knowledgeTime to verify a statement depends on the distance between objects and attributes
e.g a canary is yellow > canary is a canary
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- January - 2015 exams (Memory Psychology) Flashcards on 3. Long-Term Memory, created by Alice Betteridge on 05/01/2015.
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