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Chapter 8
Psych 105.
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Physiology
Undergraduate 1
12/13/2010

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Source Amneasa
Definition
- attributing to the wrong source an event we have experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined.
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misinformation effect
Definition
- incorporating misleading info in to one's memory of an event
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repression
Definition
- in psychology theory, the basic defence mechanism that banishes from consequences anxiety arousing thoughts, feeling, and memories.
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Retroactive
Definition
-the disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old info.
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Proactive
Definition
the disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new info.
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Distortion
Definition
-misattribution, suggestibility ,bias
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Forgetting 
Definition

- absent mindedness- inattention

-Transscience-storage decays over time

-Blocking- in accessible of stored info

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Deja-vu
Definition
- 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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Priming 
Definition
- the activation often unconsciously, of particular association's in memory.
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Relearning
Definition
- a measure of memory that access the amount of time saved when learning material fro a second time.
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Recognition 
Definition
- a measure of memory in which the person need only identify items previously learned, as on a multiple-choice test.
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Recall
Definition
- 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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Hippocampus
Definition
- a neural center that is located in the limbic system helps process explicit memories for storage.
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Amnesia
Definition
- the loss of memory
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Flashbulb Memory 
Definition
- a dear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event.
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Long Term Potentiation.
Definition
- 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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Echoic Memory
Definition
- 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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Iconic Memory
Definition
- 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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Chunking 
Definition
- organizing items into familiar manageable units: often occurs automatically.
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