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Memory Rehearsal
Definition
Any mental activity that has the effect of maintaining information in working memory. Two types of rehearsal: maintenance and elaborative rehearsal. EX: BICYCLE,BICYCLE,BICYCLE
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Free Recall
Definition
A method of assessing memory. List of words. then recalling the later.
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Primary Effect
Definition
An often-observed advantage in remembering the early-presented materials within a sequence of materials.
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Recall
Definition
The task of memory retrieval in which the rememberer must come up with the desired materials, sometimes response to a cue that names the context in which there materials were earlier encountered.
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Recognition
Definition
The task of memory retrieval in which the items to be remembered are presented and the person must decide whether or not the item was encountered in some earlier circumstances.
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Retrieval Paths
Definition
paths that can, in effect, guide your thoughts toward the content to be remembered.
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Encoding Specificity
Definition
Retrieval is facilitated to the extent that the context at encoding and retrieval match.
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Shallowing Processing
Definition
A mode of thinking about material in which one pays attention only to appearance and other superficial aspects of the material.
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Deep Processing
Definition
A mode of thinking about material in which one pays attention to the meaning and implication of the material
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State-Dependent Learning
Definition
A phenomenon in which learning seems linked to the person's mental, emotional, or biological state during the learning.
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Implicit Memory
Definition
A memory revealed by indirect memory.
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Repetition Priming
Definition
A pattern of priming that occurs simply because a stimulus is presented a second time.
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Familiarity
Definition
In some circumstances the subjective feeling that one has encountered a stimulus before.
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Source Confusion
Definition
A memory error in which one misremembers where a bit of information was learned or where a particular stimulus was last encountered.
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Processing Fluency
Definition
An improvement in the speed or ease of processing that results from prior practice in using those same processing steps.
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