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| Encoding requiring attention and concious effort |
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Tendency for distrupted study or practice to yield better long term retention |
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| concious repetition of info either to maintain in concousness or encode into storage |
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| You recall the first and last things of a list |
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| Encoding of picture images |
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Acoustic Encoding
Semantic Encoding |
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Encouding of sound
Encoding of meaning (and meaning of words) |
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Mental pictues; powerful aid to effortful processing
Memory aids (use organization)
Organizing into familiar manegable units; occurs automatically |
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Iconic Memory
Echoic Memory |
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Momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli; a photographic picture-image memory lasting no more than a tenth of a second
A momentary sensory memory due to audio stimulus. "echo lasts longer"... remembered for 4-3 seconds. |
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| Long Term Potentiation (LTP) |
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| An increase ina synapes's firing potential after brief rapid stimulation. Beleived to be a neural basis for learning and memory |
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Amnesia
Implicit Memory
Explicit Memory |
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Loss of memory
Retention independent of conscious recollection
Memory of facts and expereineces one conscously know's and declares |
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| A neural center that is located in the limbic system and helps process explicit memories for storage. |
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Recall
Recognition
Relearning |
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A measure of memory in which a person must retrive info learned earlier (fill in the blanks)
a measure of memory in which the persaon need only identify items previously learned (nmultiple choice)
memory measure that assesses the amount of time saved when learning a material for 2nd time. |
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Activiation (uncousncously)
Tendency to recall expereinces that are consistent with one's mood. |
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Proactive Interference:
Repression |
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Disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new info.
Motivated foregetting |
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| incorporating misleading info. into one's memory of an event (Eliz. Loftus) |
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| Attributing the wrong source of an event we have expereined. ("unintentionally plagerizing songs"-artists copying other artists) |
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| Attributing the wrong source of an event we have expereined. ("unintentionally plagerizing songs"-artists copying other artists) |
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