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| The process by which we encode, store, and retrieve information. |
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| The initial, momentary storage of information, lasting only an instant. |
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| Memory that holds information for 15 to 25 seconds. |
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| Memory that stores information on a relatively permanent basis, although it may be difficult to retrieve. |
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| A meaningful grouping of stimuli that can be stored as a unit in short-term memory. |
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| The repetition of information that has entered short-term memory. |
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| A set of active temporary memory stores that actively manipulate and rehearse information. |
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| Memory for factual information: names, faces, dates, and the like. |
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| Memory for skills and habits, such as riding a bike or hitting a baseball, sometimes referred to as nondelarative memory. |
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| Memory for general knowledge and facts about the world, as well as memory for the rules of logic that are used to deduce other facts. |
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| Memory for events that occur in a particular time, place, or context. |
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| Mental representations of clusters of interconnected information |
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| Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon |
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| The inability to recall information that one realizes one knows- a result of the difficulty of retrieving information from long-term memory. |
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| Memory task in which specific information must be retrieved |
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| Memory task in which individuals are presented with a stimulus and asked whether they have been exposed to it in the past or to identify it from a list of alternatives. |
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| Levels-of-processing theory |
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| The theory of memory that emphasizes the degree to which new material is mentally analyzed. |
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| Intentional or conscious recollection of information. |
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| Memories of which people are more consciously aware, but which can affect subsequent performance and behavior. |
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| A phenomenon in which exposure to a word or concept (called a prime) later makes it easier to recall related information, even when there is no conscious memory of the word or concept. |
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| Memories centered on a specific, important, or surprising event that are so vivid it is as if they represented a snapshot of the event. |
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| Processes in which memories are influenced by the meaning we give to events. |
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| Organized bodies of information stored in memory that bias the way new information is interpreted stored, and recalled. |
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| Autobiographical memories |
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| Our recollections of circumstances and episodes from our own lives. |
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| The loss of information in memory through its non-use. |
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| The phenomenon by which information in memory disrupts the recall of other information. |
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| Forgetting that occurs when there are insufficient retrieval cues to rekindle information is in memory. |
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| Interference in which information learned earlier disrupts the recall of newer memory. |
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| Interference in which there is difficulty in the recall of information learned earlier because of later exposure to different material |
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| An illness characterized in part by severe memory problems |
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| Memory loss that occurs without other mental difficulties. |
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| Amnesia in which memory is lost for occurrences prior to a certain event. |
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| Amnesia in which memory is lost for events that follow an injury. |
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| A disease that afflicts long-term alcoholics, leaving some abilities intact but including hallucinations and a tendency to repeat the same story. |
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