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| the process by which we transform what we perceive, think, or feel into an enduring memory |
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| the process of maintaining information in memory over time |
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| the process of bringing to mind information that has been previously encoded and stored |
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| the process of actively relating new information to knowledge that is already in memory |
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| the process of storing new information by converting it into mental pictures |
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| the process of categorizing information according to the relationships among a series of items |
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| the process of storing information that aids survival |
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| a fast-decaying store of visual information |
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| a fast-decaying store of auditory information |
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| active maintenance of information in short-term storage |
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| combining small pieces of information into larger clusters or chunks that are more easily held in short-term memory |
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| the process of keeping information in short-term memory by mentally repeating it |
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| the process by which memories become stable in the brain |
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| state-dependent retrieval |
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| the tendency for information to be better recalled when the person is in the same state during encoding and retrieval |
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| transfer-appropriate processing |
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| the idea that memory is likely to transfer from one situation to another when the encoding context of the situations match |
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| the inability to retrieve information that was acquired before a particular date, usually the date of an injury or operation |
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| the inability to transfer new information from the short-term store into the long-term store |
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| facts and general knowledge |
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| personally experienced events |
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| motor and cognitive skills |
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| enhanced identification of objects or words |
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1. transience
2. absentmindedness
3. blocking
4. memory misattribution
5. suggestibility
6. bias
7. persistance |
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| forgetting what occurs with the passage of time (exponential decay curve) |
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| a lapse in attention that results in memory failure |
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| a failure to retrieve information that is available in memory even though you are trying to produce it |
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| assigning a recollection or an idea to the wrong source |
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| recall of when, where, and how info was acquired |
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| a feeling of familiarity about something that hasn't been encountered before |
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| the tendency to incorporate misleading info from external sources into personal recollections |
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| individuals claim to recover memories of traumatic events they suppressed for years |
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| the distorting influences of present knowledge, beliefs, and feelings on recollection of previous experiences |
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| the tendency to reconstruct the past to fit the present |
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| tendency to exaggerate differences between what we feel and believe now and what we did in the past |
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| tendency to exaggerate the change between present and past in order to make ourselves look good in retrospect |
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| the intrusive recollection of events that we wish we could forget |
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| detailed recollection of when and where we heard about shocking events |
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