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was a German psychologist who pioneered the experimental study of memory, and is known for his discovery of the forgetting curve and the spacing effect. He was also the first person to describe the learning curve. |
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| our tendency to recall best the last ( recency effect ) and first ( primacy effect ) items in a list. |
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| the activation, often unconsciously, of certain associations, thus predisposing one’s perception, memory, or response. |
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| the tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with one’s current good or bad mood. |
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| encoding that requires attention and conscious effort. |
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is the BEST example or cognitive representation of something within a certain category.
Prototypes are used to enhance memory and recall, since you can keep a prototype of something and then match new, similar things to the prototype in order to identify, categorize, or store this new thing. |
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has a long history in Freudian and clinical psychology, and refers to when a person is "stuck" in one stage of psychosexual development. ...
Fixation also refers to an inability to adopt any different or new perspective on a problem. |
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