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- attributing to the wrong source an event we have experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined. |
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- incorporating misleading info in to one's memory of an event |
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- in psychology theory, the basic defence mechanism that banishes from consequences anxiety arousing thoughts, feeling, and memories. |
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-the disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old info. |
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the disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new info. |
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-misattribution, suggestibility ,bias |
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- absent mindedness- inattention
-Transscience-storage decays over time
-Blocking- in accessible of stored info |
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- that eerie sense that "I've experienced this before" cues from the current situation may subconsciously trigger retrieval to earlier experience. |
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- the activation often unconsciously, of particular association's in memory. |
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- a measure of memory that access the amount of time saved when learning material fro a second time. |
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- a measure of memory in which the person need only identify items previously learned, as on a multiple-choice test. |
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- a measure of memory in which the person must retrieve into learned earlier, as on a fill i the blank test. |
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- a neural center that is located in the limbic system helps process explicit memories for storage. |
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- a dear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event. |
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- an increase in a synapse's firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation. Believed to be neural basis for learning and memory. |
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- a momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli, if attention is elsewhere sounds and words can still be recalled within 3 or 4 sec. |
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- a momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli; a photographic or picture-image memory lasting no more then a few tenths of a second. |
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- organizing items into familiar manageable units: often occurs automatically. |
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