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Question 1

The processing of information into memory system for example by extracting meaning

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Encoding

Question 2

The retention of encoded information overtime

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Storage

Question 3

The process of getting information out of memory storage

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Retrieval

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Immediate, very brief recording of sensory information in the memory system

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Sensory memory

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Activated memory that holds a few items briefly, such as the seventh is the phone number while dialing, before the information is stored or forgotten

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Short-term memory

Question 6

The relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system. Includes knowledge, skills, and experiences

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Long-term memory

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A newer understanding of short-term memory that focuses on conscious, active processing of incoming auditory and visual- spatial information, and of information retrieved from long-term memory

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Working memory

Question 8

Processing of many aspects of the problem simultaneously; the brains natural mode of information processing for many functions. Contrast with the step-by-step processing of most computers and of conscious problem-solving

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Parallel processing

Question 9

The unconscious encoding of incidental information, such as space, time, and frequency, and of well learned information, such as word meanings

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Automatic processing

Question 10

Encoding that requires attention and conscious effort

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Effortful processing

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The conscious repetition of information, either to maintain it in consciousness or to encode it for storage

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Rehearsal

Question 12

The tendency for distributed study or practice do yield better long-term retention than is achieved through massed study or practice

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Spacing effect

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Our tendency to recall best the last and first terms in a list

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Serial position effect

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The encoding a picture images

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Visual encoding

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Encoding of sound, especially the sound of words

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Acoustic encoding

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The encoding of meaning, including the meaning of words

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Semantic encoding

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Mental pictures; the powerful aid to effortful processing, especially when combined with semantic encoding

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Imagery

Question 18

Memory aids, especially those techniques that use vivid imagery and organizational devices

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Mnemonics

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Organizing items into familiar, imaginable units; often occurs automatically

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Chunking

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A momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli; photographic or picture image memory lasting no more than a few tenths of a second

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Iconic memory

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I momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli; if attention is elsewhere, sounds and words can still be recalled within three or four seconds

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Echoic memory

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Increase in the synapses firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation. Believe to be neural basis for learning and memory

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Long-term potentiation

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A clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event

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Flashbulb memory

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Loss of memory

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Amnesia

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Retention independent of conscious recollection.

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Implicit memory

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Memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and declare

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Explicit memory

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The neural center that is located in the limbic system; helps process explicit memories for storage

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Hippocampus

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The measure of memory in which the person must create information learned earlier, as on a fill in the blank test

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Recall

Question 29

Measure of memory in which the person need only identify items previously learned, is on the multiple-choice test

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Recognition

Question 30

Measure of memory that assesses the amount of time saved when learning material for second time

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Relearning

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The activation, often unconsciously, of particular associations in memory

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Priming

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That Erie sense of I have experienced this before. Jews from the current situation that may subconsciously trigger retrieval of an earlier experience

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Déjà vu

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The tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with one’s current good or bad mood

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Mood congruent memory

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The disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information

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Proactive interference

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Just ripped of affective new learning on the recall of our old information

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Retroactive interference

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Psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism in the banishes from consciousness anxiety arousing thoughts, feelings, memories

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Repression

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Incorporating misleading information into one’s memory of an event

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Misinformation effect

Question 38

Attributing to the wrong source and event we have experienced heard about read about or imagined

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Source amnesia

Question 39

The persistence of learning overtime through the storage and retrieval of information

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Memory