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| The information story that briefly holds stimuli from the environment until they can be processed |
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| The process of allocating cognitive resources to a stimulus or task at hand |
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| The cognitive process that gives meaning to sensory input |
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| The memory system of the information processing model where information that has been attended to and perceived is held temporarily and processed |
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| Refreshing the information held in working memory by repeating it |
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| The cognitive process by which new information is elaborated or organized and saved into long-term memory |
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| Making connections between new information and prior knowledge |
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| Providing an orderly structure to new information |
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| Pulling information from long-term memory into working memory |
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| A storage system that can hold large amounts of information for an unlimited amount of time |
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| An individual's cognition about his/her own knowledge |
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| Combining visual and auditory information |
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| The time given to answer a question |
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| Strategies to improve memory by encoding simple information in meaningful ways |
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| Grouping individual groups of data into meaningful larger units |
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| Forms of Long Term Memory |
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Implicit knowledge
Episodic knowledge
Declaritive knowledge
Procedural knowledge
Conceptual knowledge
Conditional knowledge |
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| A hypothesized weakening over time of information stored in long-term memory, especially if the information is used infrequently or not at all. |
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| Failure to pull up a mental record of information that has been previously learned. |
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| A phenomenon whereby something stored in long-term memory inhibits one's ability to remember something else correctly. |
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| Constructing a logical but incorrect "memory" by using information retrieved from long-term memory plus one's general knowledge and beliefs about the world. |
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| Information Processing Model |
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