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| Conscious, intentional recollection of an event or of an item of information. |
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| Unconscious retention in memory, as evidenced by the effect of a previous experience or previously encountered information on current thoughts or actions. |
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| Often invoked to explain an interesting phenomenon called the serial-position effect. |
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| A memory system that momentarily preserves extremely accurate sensory information before the information fades or moves into short-term memory. |
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| In the three-box model of memory, a limited-capacity memory system involved in the retention of information for brief periods; it is also used to hold information retrieved from long-term memory for temporary use. |
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| Short-term memory plus the mental processes that ocntrol retrieval of information from long-term memory and interpret that information appropriately for a given task. |
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| In the three-box model of memory, memory system involved in the long-term storage of information. |
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| Memories for the performance of actions or skills ("knowing how") |
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| Memories of general knowledge, including facts, rules, concepts, and propositions. |
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| Memories of personally experienced events and the contexts in which they occured. |
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| The tendency for recall of the first and last items on a list to surpass recall of items in the middle of the list. |
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| Primacy and recency effects |
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| If you are asked to remember a list of items and asked to recall them, your retention of any particular item will depend on its position inthe list. Best for items in beginning (primacy) and at the end of the list (recency). |
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| Association of new information with already stored knowledge and analysis of the new information to make it memorable. |
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| The tendency to remember something when the rememberer is in the same physical or menta state as during the original learning or experience. |
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| The partial or complete loss of memory for important personal information. |
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