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H.M.
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Most famous amnesia patient to date. Suffered epilepsy. Doctors took out his hippocampus. So he was stuck in the moment and had no memories nor could he make any new memories.
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Sensory Memory
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• Sensory Memory holds information in its original sensory form for a very brief period of time, usually about half a second or less. (the most basic form of memory)
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Iconic memory
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Brief visual record
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Echoic Memory
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Short-term retention of sounds
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• Short term memory capacity
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o 7 items on average (like a phone number)
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o Chunking
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breaking down a list of items into a smaller set of meaningful units
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• How short term memory works
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o Attending
o Storing o Retrieval o Consolidation |
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o Attending
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(where does it go?)
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o Storing
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episodic buffer gets a memory ready to store)
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o Rehearsing
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phonological loop voice that repeats over and over in your head
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Serial position effect
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Recency effect
Primacy effect |
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o Primacy effect
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easy to remember the stuff at the beginning of a list
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o Recency effect
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easy to remember the stuff at the end of a list
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Long term memory
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• Researchers think that it is limitless in capacity
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2 types of long term memory
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o Implicit memory
o Explicit memory |
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o Implicit memory
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Procedural memory (learning of procedures like riding a bike)
Priming (like giving hints or cue) |
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o Explicit memory
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Semantic (general world knowledge or factual knowledge (jeopardy))
Episodic (significant episode) ex: September 11th |