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Flashcards by saadiecook, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by saadiecook
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| Question | Answer |
| Encoding | Changing information so it can be stored |
| Storage | Holding information in the memory system |
| Retreieval | Recovering information from the storage |
| Mulit-store | The idea that information passes through a series of memory stores |
| Sensory store | Hold information recived from the senses for a very short period of time |
| Short-term store | Hold approximtaly seven chunks of information for a limited amount of time |
| Long-term store | Holds a vast amount of information for a very long period of time |
| Recency effect | Information received later is recalled better then earlier information |
| Primacy effect | The first information received is recalled better than later information |
| Re constructive memory | Altering our recollection of things so that they make more sense to us |
| Structural processing | Thinking about the physical appearence of words to be learnt |
| Phonetic processing | Thinking about the sound of words to be learnt |
| Semantic processing | Thinking about the meaning of words to be learnt |
| Levels of processing | The depth at which information is thought about when trying to learn it |
| Interfernce | Things that we gave learnt that make it difficult to recall other information that we have learnt |
| Retroactive interference | When information we have recently learnt hinders our ability to recall information we have learnt previously |
| Proactive interfence | When information we have already learnt hinders our ability to recall new information |
| Context | The general setting or environment in which activities happen |
| Aneterograde amnesia | Being unable to learn new information after suffering brain damage |
| Hippocampus | A brain structure that is crucial for memory |
| Retrograde amnesia | Loss of memory for events that happened before brain damage occurred |
| Reliablity | In the context of eyewitness testimony the extent to which it can be regarded as accurate |
| Leading question | A question that hints to a particular answer |
| Cognitive interview | A method of questioning witnesses that involves recreating the context of an event |
| Sterotype | An oversimplified generalised set of ideas that we have about others |
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