General Terms
Getting information out of storage
Retrieval
Part of the neuron that receives information from other cells
Dendrite
When storage of similar sounding items interfere with each other.
Phonological similarity effect
The idea that time spent learning is linearly related to mastery of that subject.
Total time hypothesis
Uncontrolled variables that can change the interpretation of your results
Confounds
Lashley's findings demonstrated that memories are stored in a ___________ manner.
Distributed
Meaningful units of grouped items
Chunks
When we pay less attention to something we just saw.
Deficient processing hypothesis
A benefit of testing various populations outside of the lab is that it has good:
Generalizability or external validity.
This uses magnetic pulses to manipulate neural activity
TMS
This part of the multicomponent model allows short-term memory stores to interact with long-term memory
Episodic buffer
When you reactivate days events during sleep
Sleep dependent replay
What happens to unattended information in sensory memory?
It is lost or forgotten
A region that includes connections between the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex
Diencephalon
What is the average short-term memory capacity for simple visual objects such as colored squares?
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Dividing attention reduces activity in this part of the frontal lobe.
Ventrolateral PFC
A memory task where you ask for a specific memory such as "what is your favorite color?"
Cued recall
What is a major con of disease related studies on memroy?
It's difficult to separate memory impairment from other deficits
Who does working memory training most clearly benefit
People with high working memory capacity
Where do we see increased activity when participants are curious?
Ventral Tegmental Area and nucleus accumbens