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1
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Triggers depolarization and increases the likelihood of response.

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Excitatory Neurotransmitter

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Regulate the population of the neurons.

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Neuromodulators

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Triggers hyperpolarization and decreases the likelihood of response.

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Inhibitory

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The great feeling that you succeeded at meeting your needs.

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Dopamine

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It improves focus if high level but causes anxiety if low.

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GABA / Gamma Amino Butyric Acid

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Fight of Flight neurotransmitter.

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Adrenaline

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7
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Produced by adrenal gland and synthesized by tyrosine.

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Adrenaline

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Synthesized by tryptophan.

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Serotonin

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9
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Gives euphoria. Pain reliever.

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Endorphin

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10
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3 chemical substance of the brain.

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Monoamine
Neuropeptide
Amino acid

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Attention and arousal.

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Acetylcholine / Ach

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12
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Body’s chemical messenger.

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Neurotransmitter

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13
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Activates when you feel important and need attention.

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Serotonin

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14
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“Happy Hormone.”

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Serotonin

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15
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How many seconds before body releases oxytocin during physical touch?

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20

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16
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Good feeling when you’re with someone you trust.

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Oxytocin

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17
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How many percent of people fall in love through body language?

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55%

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18
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How many percent of people fall in love through the speed and tone of voice?

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38%

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19
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How many percent of people fall in love through what the other say?

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7%

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20
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The stage of love where you are “lovestruck”.

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Attraction

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21
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Hormone released after sex.

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Vasopressin

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22
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“The cuddle hormone”

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Oxytocin

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23
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First stage of love or the sex-drive stage.

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Lust

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24
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Sex hormones of men and women.

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Testosterone

Estrogen

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25
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Stimulates “desire and reward”

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Dopamine

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26
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Form of positive/good stress.

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Eustress

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27
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Most important chemical when falling in love.

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Serotonin.

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28
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What disorder is related to falling in love according to Dr. Donatella Marazitti?

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OCD / Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

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29
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Obsession is partnered with what?

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Compulsion

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30
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Optimistic view of something. A phenomenon which all a person sees is beauty of things.

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Rose Tinted Glass View

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31
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Bond that keeps couple together long enough for them to have and raise children.

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Attachment

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32
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Hormone released during orgasm.

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Oxytocin

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33
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What’s the first step of Arthur Aron’s 34-Minute Experiment?

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Find a stranger

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34
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Whose theory is love language?

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Gary Chapman

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35
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5 love languages

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Touch
Words
Service
Time
Gift
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36
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Trying to detect the appearance of a particular stimulus in an environment with lots of unnecessary stuff.

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Signal Detection and Vigilance

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37
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The ability to focus on aspect of a scene and analyze it.

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Attention

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38
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The feeling of awareness.

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Consciousness

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39
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Fully committing into something when focused.

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Engagement

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40
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Ignoring what’s important.

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Disengagement

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41
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Changing of focus when something important comes up.

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Shifting

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42
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Actively looking for something even without an idea where it will appear.

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Searching

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43
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Hinder/slow down the search process.

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Display size

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44
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One’s ability to focus on a single talker in a noisy environment.

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Cocktail Party Effect

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45
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Focusing on a particular object and what matters.

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Selective Attention

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46
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Multitasking.

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Divided Attention

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47
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Factor that influence attention by being anxious. Either by nature or situation.

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Anxiety

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48
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Factor that your overall state affects your attention. (Tired, drowsy, excited)

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Arousal

49
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Factor that influences performance during divided attention.

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Task Difficulty

50
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Theory of people having limited perceptual capacity.

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Load Theory of Attention

51
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The inability to detect changes in objects or scene.

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Change Blindness

52
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The inability to see things that are actually there.

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Inattentional Blindess

53
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Types of ADHD

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Inattentional
Hyperactive
Combined

54
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Attentional dysfunction which participants ignore half of their visual field.

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Spatial Neglect

55
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The superior recall in the end of the list.

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Recency Effect.

56
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The superior recall on the beginning of the list.

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Primacy Effect.

57
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Theory by R. Arkinson & R. Shiffin where people tend to remember the first and last words best.

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Serial Position Effect

58
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How many words can people remember overtime?

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5

59
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How many letters can people remember overtime?

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6

60
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How many digits can people remember overtime?

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5-9

61
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How many visuals can people remember overtime?

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1-5

62
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How many units of information can human brain retain?

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7 / Magic Number 7

63
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New information interferes with old info and makes them forget it.

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Retroactive

64
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Old info interferes with new learning.

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Proactive

65
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Refers to the view that forgetting occurs because recall of certain words interferes with recall of other words.

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Interference Theory

66
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Elaborates the items to be remembered.

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Elaborative Rehearsal

67
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Repetitiously rehearse the items to be remembered.

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Maintenance Rehearsal

68
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“Primary or Active Memory”. The info that we’re currently aware of our thinking.

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Short-term memory

69
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Auditory sensory memories.

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Echoic memory

70
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Visual sensory memories.

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Iconic memory

71
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Holds an exact replica of stimulus for a very brief amount of time.

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Sensory Memory

72
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Requires effort and attention to be encoded.

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Effortful Processing

73
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Encoded automatically and without effort.

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Automatic Processing

74
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How memory works? (In order)

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Stimulus - Sensory Organ - Sensory Memory - Short-term memory - Long-term memory

75
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Usage of information stored in memory.

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Retrieval

76
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Keeping of encoded info.

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Storage

77
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Transformation of data into a form of mental representation.

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Encoding

78
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The process of maintaining info overtime.

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Memory

79
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Memory of events.

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Episodic Memory

80
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Memory of facts, meanings, concepts.

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Semantic Memory

81
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“Body Memory”. Unconscious memory of skills.

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Procedural Memory

82
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Continuing storage of information.

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Long-term Memory

83
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The ability to identify previously encountered material.

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Recognition

84
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The ability to retrieve and reproduce from memory previously encountered material.

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Recall

85
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Recall any items in any order.

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Free Recall

86
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Recall items in exact order.

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Serial Recall

87
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Recall items in pair.

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Cued Recall

88
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Very long storage of information.

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Permastore

89
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Bridge for information in Short-TM to be transferred to Long-TM.

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Working Memory

90
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Briefly holds some visual images.

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Visuospatial Sketchpad

91
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Briefly holds the inner speech for verbal comprehension.

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Phonological Loop

92
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Holds the information in memory.

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Phonological Storage

93
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Used to put the information into memory in the first place.

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Subvocal Rehearsal

94
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More pronounced when the information is presented visually versus aurally.

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Articulatory Suppression Phenomenon

95
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Coordinates attentional activities and governs responses.

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Central Executive

96
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The limited capacity system that’s capable of binding information from visuospatial sketchpad and the phonological loop as well as Long-TM into unitary episodic representation.

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Episodic Buffer

97
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“Psychogenic Amnesia”. Due to psychological trauma.

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Functional Amnesia

98
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Creating a whole new personality because they forgot who they are.

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Dissociative Fugue

99
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Multiple Personality

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DID / Dissociative Identity Disorder

100
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Amnesia in the first years of life.

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Infantile Amnesia

101
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Trying to remember a familiar piece of info but can’t quite do it.

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Tip of the tongue phenomenon

102
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Frozen in time caused by stress hormone.

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Mental Block

103
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Storing related ideas in a separated categories or files called NODES.

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Network Theory

104
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Personal associations that are followed in order to remember something.

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Cognitive Map

105
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“Motivated Forgetting”. Defense mechanism to banish anxiety-producing information.

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Repression

106
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Memory was encoded and stored but sometimes you cannot just access the memory,

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Retrieval Failure

107
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Memories decay/fade away gradually if unused.

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Decay Theory

108
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Once the information is kicked out of the brain, it’s gone.

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Displacement

109
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“Seen Before”

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Deja Vu

110
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“Never before”

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Jamais Vu

111
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Ways to improve encoding and create better retrieval cues by forming images.

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Mnemonics

112
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Association of new items to already-memorized items to be easily recalled.

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Method of Loci

113
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Rhyming items to be memorized.

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Peg Method

114
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Information may never be encoded to LTM.

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Encoding Failure

115
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Loss of memory

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Amnesia

116
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Trauma to the physical brain structure.

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Organic Amnesia

117
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Cannot form new memories.

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Anterograde Amnesia

118
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Cannot recall events before injury.

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Retrograde Amnesia

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