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

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

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

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

5. General knowledge of the world

6. STM capacity of 7±2

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

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

9. 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

10. Knowing how to do something

11. 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

12. Forgetting theory - memories fade with time

13. Grouping items can increase STM capacity

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

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

16. Decay (or trace) and interference theory

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

18. On the verge of retrieval

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

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

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

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

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

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

25. Primary and recency effects

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