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Learning

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any relative permanent change in behaviour as a result of experience

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Classical Conditioning

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an organism learns to associate a neutral stimulus with a biologically relevant stimulus results in a change in the response to the previously neutral stimulus

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Unconditioned Stimulus (US)

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Stimulus that elicits a reflexive response without learning

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Unconditioned Response (UR)

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Reflexive unlearned reaction to an unconditioned stimulus

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Conditioned Stimulus (CS)

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once neutral stimulus that later elicits a conditioned response

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Conditioned Response (CR)

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learned response that occurs to the conditioned response

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Acquisition

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a response is established

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Extinction

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reduction of a conditioned response when a conditioned stimulus and unconditioned stimulus no longer occur together

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Spontaneous Recovery

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reoccurrence of a previously extinguished conditioned response, after some time has passed since extinction

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Generalization

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response that originally occurred for a specific stimulus also occurs for different but similar stimulus

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Discrimination

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Organism learns to respond to one original conditioned stimulus but not to new stimuli that may be similar to the original stimulus

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Conditioned emotional responses

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consist of emotional and psychological responses that develop to a specific object or situation

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preparedness

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the biological predisposition to rapidly learn a response to a particular class of stimulus

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Conditioned taste aversions

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acquired dislike or disgust for a food or drink because it was paired with illness

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latent inhibition

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frequent experience with a stimulus before it is paired with a unconditioned stimulus makes it less likely that conditioning will occur after a single episode of illness

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operant conditioning

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type of learning which behaviour is influenced by consequences

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Reinforcement

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event or reward that follows a response increases the likelihood of that response occurring again

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law of effect

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responses followed by satisfaction will occur again in the same situation whereas those not followed by satisfaction become less likely

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reinforcer

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stimulus that is contingent upon a response and that increases the probability of that response occurring again

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punishment

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process that decreases the future probability of a response

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punisher

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stimulus that is contingent upon a response and that results in a decrease in behaviour

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positive reinforcement

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strengthening of behaviour after potential reinforcers such as praise, money or nourishment follow that behaviour

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negative reinforcement

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involves the strengthening of behaviour because it removes or diminishes a stimulus

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avoidance learning

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type of negative reinforcement that removes the possibility that a stimulus will occur

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Escape learning

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occurs if a response removes a stimulus that is already presented

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positive punishment

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behaviour decreases in frequency because it was followed by a particular usually unpleasant stimulus

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negative punishment

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behaviour decreases because it removes or diminishes a particular substance

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shaping

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successive approximations of a specific operant response

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chaining

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involves linking together 2 or more shaped behaviours into a more complex action or sequence of actions

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applied behavioural analysis

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using close observation, prompting and reinforcement to reach behaviours often to people who experience difficulties and challenges owing to a developmental condition

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primary reinforcers

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reinforcing stimuli that satisfy basic motivational needs

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secondary reinforcers

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consist of stimuli that acquire their reinforcing effects only after we learn that they have value

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schedules of reinforcement

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rules that determine when reinforcement is available

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continuous reinforcement

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every response made results in reinforcement

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partial (intermittent) reinforcement

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only a certain number number of responses are rewarded or certain amount of time must pass for rewards

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latent learning

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learning that is not immediately expressed by a response until the organism is reinforced to do so

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observational learning

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changes in behaviour and knowledge that result from watching others

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imitation

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recreating someone else’s motor behaviour or expression, often to accomplish a specific goal

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memory

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collection of several systems that store information in different forms for differing amount of times

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stores

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retain information in memory without using it for any specific purpose

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control processes

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shift information from one memory store to another

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attention

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selects which information will be passed onto short term memory

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encoding

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the process of storing information into the long term memory system

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retrieval

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brings information from LTM back into STM

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sensory memory

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memory store that accurately holds perceptual information for a very brief amount of time

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iconic memory

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visual form of sensory memory

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echoic memory

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auditory form of sensory memory

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short term memory

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memory store with limited capacity and duration

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chunking

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organizing smaller units of information into larger more meaningful units

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long term memory

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holds information for extended periods of time, if not permanent

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serial position effect

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first 2 things off a list and last 2 things off a list and only one maybe 2 from middle

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proactive interference

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process in which first information is learned (first on a list)

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retroactive interference

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most recently learned information (last on a list)

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brain areas involved in memory

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frontal lobe, cerebral cortex, prefrontal cortex hippocampus, cerebellum

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rehearsal

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repeating information until you do not need to remember it anymore

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working memory

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combination of memory components that can temporarily store small amounts of information for a small period of time

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phonological loop

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storage component of working memory that relies on rehearsal and that stores information as sounds, or an auditory code

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word length effect

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people remember 1 syllable words better that multiple syllable words

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visuospatial sketchpad

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storage component of working memory that maintains visual images and spatial layouts in visuospatial code

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feature binding

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process of combining visual features into a single unit

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episodic buffer

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a storage component of working memory that combines the images and sounds from the other 2 components into coherent story like episodes

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central executive

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control centre of working memory coordinates attention and the exchange of information among the three storage compartments

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declarative memories

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memories that we are consciously aware of and that can be verbalized including facts about the world and own personal experiences

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non-declarative memories

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actions or behaviours that you can remember and perform without awareness

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episodic memories

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declarative memories for personal experiences that seem to be organized around episodes and are recalled from a first person perspective

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semantic memories

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declarative memories that include facts about the world

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procedural memory

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learned patterns of muscle movements

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long term potentiation

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demonstrated that there is an enduring increase in connectivity and transmission of neural signals between nerve cells that fire together

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consolidation

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process of converting short term memories into long term memories in the brain

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amnesia

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a profound loss of at least one form of memory

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anterograde amnesia

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inability to form new memories for events occurring after a brain injury

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storage

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refers to the time and manner in which information is retained between encoding and retrieval

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reconsolidation

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the hippocampus functions to update, strengthen, or modify existing long-term memories

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cross-cortical storage

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long-term declarative memories are distributed throughout the cortex of the brain, than being localized in one region

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retrograde amnesia

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inability to remember what was already known

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shallow processing

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encoding more superficial properties of a stimulus such as the sound or spelling a word

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deep processing

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encoding information about an items meaning or its function

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self-reference effect

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think about information in terms of how it relates to you

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recognition

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identifying a stimulus or information when it is presented to you

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recall

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retrieving information when asked but without that information being present during the retrieval process

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encoding specificity principle

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retrieval is most effective when the conditions at the time of encoding and retrieval are the same

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context-dependent memory

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retrieval is more effective when it takes place in the same physical setting as encoding

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state-dependent memory

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retrieval is more effective when your internal state matches the state you were in during encoding

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mood-dependent memory

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people remember better if their mood at retrieval matches their mood from encoding

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weapon focus

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tendency to focus on a weapon at the expense of peripheral information including the identity of the person holding the weapon

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flashbulb memory

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extremely vivid and detailed memory about an event and the conditions surrounding how one learned about the event

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the forgetting curve

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most forgetting occurs right away and that the rate of forgetting eventually slows to a point where one does not seem to forget at all

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mnemonic

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technique intended to improve memory for specific information

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method of loci

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mnemonic that connects words to be remembered to locations along a familiar path

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acronyms

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pronounceable words whose letters represent the initials of an important phrase or set of items

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first-letter technique

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the first letters of a set items to spell out words that form a sentence

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dual coding

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occurs when information is stored in more than one form

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desirable difficulties

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techniques that make studying slower and more effortful but result in better overall remembering

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testing effect

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finding that taking practice tests can improve exam performance

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