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| THe persistence of learning over time throught the storage and retrieval of information |
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| A clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event |
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The processing of information into the memory system - for example, by extracting meaning |
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| The process of getting information out of memory storage |
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| The retention of encoded info over time |
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| The immediate, very brief recording of sensory information in the memory system |
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| Activated memory that holds a few items bbriefly, such as the seven digits of a phone number while dialing, before the info is stored or forgotten |
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| The relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system. Includes knowledge, skills, and experiences |
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| A newer understanding of short-term memory that involves conscious, active processing of incoming auditory and visual-spaital ifo and of info retrieved from long-term memory. |
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| Unconscious encoding of incidental info, such as space, time, and frequency, and of well-learned info, such as word meanings |
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| Encoding that requires attention and conscious effort |
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| The conscious repetition of info, either to maintain it in consciousness or to encode it for storage |
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| The tendency for ditributed study or practive to yiel better long-term retention than is achieved through massed study or practice |
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| Our tendency to recall best the last and first items in a list |
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| Visual / Acoustic / Semantic Encoding |
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the encoding of picture images / encoding of sound / encoding of meaning, including the meaning of words |
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| Mental pictures; a powerful aid to efforful processing, especially when combined with semantic encoding |
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| Memory aids, espeically those techniques that use vivd imagery and organizational devices |
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| oRGANIZING ITEMS INTO FAMILIAR, MANAGEABLE UNITS, OFTEN OCCURS AUTOMATICALLY |
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| A momentary sensory memory of visual stiumul; a photographic or picture-image memory lasting no more than a few tenths of a second |
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| A momentary sensory memory of auditory stiumuli; if attention is elsewhere, sounds and words can still be recalled within 3 or 4 seconds |
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| Retnetnion independenf of conscious recollection (also called procedural memory) |
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| Memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and "declare" (Also called declarative memory) |
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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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A measure of memory in which the person must retrieve info learned earlier, as on a fill-in-the-blank test |
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| A measure of memory inwhich the person need only identify items previously learned, as on a multiple choice test |
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| A memory measure that assess the amount of time saved when learning material for a second time |
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| The activation, often unconsciously, of particular association in memory. |
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| The eerie sense that "I've experience this befores" Cues from the current situation may subconsciously trigger retrieval of an earlier experience |
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| The tendency to Recall experiences that are consisten with one's current good or bad mood |
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| The disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new info |
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| The disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old info |
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| In psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mehcanims that banishes from sconsciouness anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories |
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| Inoporating mis-leading info into one's memory of the event |
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| Attributing to the wrong souce an even we have experienced, heared about, read about, or imagine. |
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