Understanding Memory Systems: Sensory, Short-Term, and Long-Term Memory Concepts

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What is the storage system that records information from each of the senses with reasonable accuracy, characterized by large capacity and very fast decay?
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What term describes the number of items recallable after a short display, such as how many letters you can see in a brief instant?
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Which paradigm provides a test of knowledge of all rows while only testing one row, showing better performance with partial report?
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What technique suggests that shorter presentation leads to longer sensory memory, triggered by the onset of a stimulus?
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What are some challenges to sensory memory, including its limited functionality and role as a short-term buffer?
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How is echoic memory measured, using a paradigm similar to the partial report paradigm but with auditory information?
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What is the difference between sensory memory and working memory in terms of visual and auditory processing?
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How is echoic memory different from visual sensory memory in terms of partial report advantage and duration?
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What types of evidence support the distinctions between short-term memory and long-term memory?
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Which neurocognitive evidence shows impaired transfer to long-term memory in patients like HM and Clive Wearing?
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What behavioral evidence supports the distinction between short-term and long-term memory, including forgetting after 18 seconds?
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What neuroimaging evidence relates to primacy and recency effects in memory retrieval?
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According to Atkinson and Shiffrin, how does memory transfer to long-term memory occur?
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How does the depth of processing affect memory, comparing shallow and deep processing?
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How does depth of processing relate to findings regarding maintenance rehearsal?
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How do elaborate encoding and deep processing contribute to memory retrieval?
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What are the problems with the depth of processing approach, according to transfer appropriate processing?
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What is the working memory approach, and how does it describe short-term memory?
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What role does the central executive play in working memory, and what evidence supports this?
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What does cognitive load refer to in the context of task completion?
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What is the phonological store, and how does it affect memory recall?
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How does the visual-spatial sketch pad function in working memory, and what is an example of its efficiency?
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What is the episodic buffer, and how does it integrate information from different modalities?
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What are the three aspects of long-term memory?
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What processes enable information to be transferred from short-term memory to long-term memory?
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What is the self-reference effect, and how does it enhance memory?
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What is the generation effect, and how does it improve recall?
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What are schemas, and how do they influence what we encode?
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How do expertise and schemas relate to encoding and long-term memory?
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What is an example of non-schematic information in memory?
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What is the dual code theory, and how does it relate to memory encoding?
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What factors influence memory for experiences after they have been encoded?
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What is the spacing effect, and how does it affect memory retention?
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What does the passage of time refer to in the context of memory?
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How does sleep affect memory, according to research?
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What is the post-event information effect, and how can it influence memory?
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What is verbal overshadowing, and how does it affect perception?
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What is retrieval, and how is performance maximized during this process?
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What is state-dependent memory, and how does it affect recall?
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What is mood-dependent memory, and how does it influence recall?
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What is context-dependent memory, and how does it affect recall?
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How do schemas impact long-term memory retrieval, according to the Deese-Roediger-McDermott paradigm?
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What is the debate regarding recovered memories of abuse, and how does it relate to memory accuracy?
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What is short-term memory, and what is its primary function?
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What is long-term memory, and what is its capacity?
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What are the limits of short-term memory, according to the Brown/Peterson paradigm and serial position effect?
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What is the working memory approach, and how does it describe immediate memory?
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How does working memory capacity relate to academic performance and clinical populations?
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What is episodic memory, and what type of information does it focus on?
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What is semantic memory, and what type of knowledge does it describe?
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What is procedural memory, and what type of knowledge does it involve?
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How do elaboration and distinctness affect memory recall?
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What is the encoding specificity principle, and when does it operate?
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How do anxiety disorders affect explicit and implicit memory tasks?
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What is retrograde amnesia, and what type of memory does it affect?
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What is anterograde amnesia, and how does it affect memory?
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What is autobiographical memory, and how accurate is it?
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What is reality monitoring, and what does it involve?
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What is flashbulb memory, and how accurate is it?
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What factors increase the likelihood of errors in eyewitness testimony?
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What is the post-misinformation effect, and how does it occur?
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What is the constructivist approach to memory, and how does it relate to false memories?
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What is meta-cognition, and what does it involve?
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What is meta-cognitive knowledge, and what does it encompass?
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What is a meta-cognitive experience, and what does it pertain to?
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What is meta-memory, and what does it involve?
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What are metamemory judgments, and what abilities do they include?
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What is the tip of the tongue phenomenon, and how does it relate to predicting future memory performance?
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What is source monitoring, and why is it challenging?
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What is the difference between internal vs internal source monitoring?
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What is the difference between external vs external source monitoring?
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What are the types of processing, and how do they differ?
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What are some basic principles for memory improvement, including remembering what is important and emotional?
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What principles are related to encoding, including transfer to long-term memory and depth of processing?
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What is the principle of transfer to long-term memory, and why does much information never get stored?
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How does rehearsal affect memory, and what is the relationship between repetitions and memory?
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What is the principle of multiple codes, and how does it affect memory?
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What is distinctiveness, and how does it affect memory?
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What principles are related to retention interval, including delay and spacing effect?
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What is the principle of delay, and how does it relate to memory?
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What principles are related to retrieval, including encoding specificity and associative memory structures?
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What is encoding specificity, and how does it affect memory retrieval?
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What are associative memory structures, and how do they affect recall?
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What is schematicity, and how does it affect memory accuracy?
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What is the keyword mnemonic, and how does it aid memory?
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What is the link system, and how does it aid memory?
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What is the method of loci, and how does it aid memory?
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How do rhymes aid memory, and what is an example?
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What are catch phrases, and how do they aid memory?
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What are list order acronyms, and how do they aid memory?
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What is prospective memory, and what does it involve?
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How can prospective memory be improved, according to implantation intentions?
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What is mental imagery, and what does it involve?
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How does imagining a movement or form draw on different processing systems, according to Binet's use of patients with brain damage?
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What is the Perky effect, and how does it relate to mental imagery?
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What is the dual coding hypothesis, and how does it relate to memory for concrete and abstract words?
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What are propositions, and how do they relate to meaning?
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What are images, and how do they relate to meaning?
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What is the analog view of images, according to Kosslyn, and how are they functional in thinking?
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