The branch of psychology that focuses on the study of higher mental processes, including thinking, language, memory, problem solving, knowing, reasoning, judging, and decision making.

Holds information for about 15 to 20 seconds and stores it according to its meaning.

Memory that stores information on a relatively permanent basis.

A meaningful group of stimuli that can be stored as a unit in short-term memory.

The process of transferring material from short to long-term memory.

A specific piece of information must be retrieved-such as that needed to answer a fill-in-the-blank question or to write an essay on a test.

Occurs when people are presented with a stimulus and asked if they have been exposed to it previously, or they are asked to identify it from a list of alternatives.

Is the loss of information through nonuse.

Information in memory disrupts the recall of other information.

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