Chapter 7A Vocab

Question 1

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

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Memory

Question 2

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

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Encoding

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The retention of encoded information overtime

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Storage

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The process of getting information out of memory storage

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Retrieval

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The 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 seven digits of the phone number while dialing, before the information is stored or forgotten

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Short-term memory

Question 7

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

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Long-term memory

Question 8

A new 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 9

The processing of many aspects of a problem simultaneously; the brains natural mode of information processing for many functions.

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Parallel processing

Question 10

Unconscious encoding of incidental information, such a space, time, and frequency, and of well learned information, such as word meanings

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Automatic processing

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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 conscious or to encode it for storage

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Rehearsal

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The tendency for distributed study or practice to yield better long-term retention that 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 of picture images

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Visual encoding

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The 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; a powerful aid to effortful processing, especially when combined with semantic encoding

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Imagery

Question 19

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

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Mnemonics

Question 20

Organizing items into familiar, manageable units; often occurs automatically

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Chunking

Question 21

A momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli; a 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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A momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli; if attention is elsewhere, sounds in words can still be recalled within three or four seconds

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Echoic memory

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An increase in synapses firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation. Believed to be a 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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The loss of memory

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Amnesia

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Retention independent of conscious recollection

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Implicit memory

Question 27

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

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Explicit memory

Question 28

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

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Hippocampus

Question 29

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

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Recall

Question 30

A 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 31

A measure of memory that assesses the amount of time saved when learning material for a second time

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Relearning

Question 32

The activation, often unconsciously, of particular associations in memory

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Priming

Question 33

That year he said that I’ve experienced this before. Cues from the current situation may subconsciously trigger retrieval of an earlier experience

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Déjà vu

Question 34

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

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Retroactive interference

Question 37

In psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety arousing thoughts feelings and memories

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Repression

Question 38

Incorporating misleading information into one’s memory of an event

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Misinformation effect

Question 39

Attributing to the wrong source in and then we have experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined.

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Source amnesia