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The process by which we encode, store, and retrieve information.

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Memory

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3 Process of Memory

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  1. Encoding
  2. Storage
  3. Retrieval
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The process of acquiring sensory information and transforming it into a format that can be stored in memory.

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Encoding

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Very brief store, lasting less than a second and captures a picture of what the senses acquire.

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Sensory Memory

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It may last forever and be unlimited.

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Retrieval

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Accessed again through retrieval.

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Long-Term Memory

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These are stimuli that aid in retrieval.

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Retrieval Cues

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It lasts from 20-45 seconds or 3-7 chunks and information is maintained through rehearsal.

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Short-Term/Working Memory

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The maintenance of material saved in memory.

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Storage

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It dominated memory research for several decades, there are different memory storage systems or stages through which information must travel if it is to be remembered.

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Three-system Approach to Memory

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It reflects information from the visual system.

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Iconic Memory

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It stores auditory information coming from the ears.

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Echoic Memory

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Psychologist that demonstrated the existence of sensory memory in a series of clever and now-classic studies.

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George Sperling

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A group of familiar stimuli stored as a single unit in short-term memory.

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Chunk

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The repetition of information that has entered short-term memory.

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Rehearsal

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It occurs when the information is considered and organized in some fashion.

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Elaborative Rehearsal

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A method for organizing information in a way that makes it more likely to be remembered.

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Mnemonics

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A memory system that holds information temporarily while actively manipulating and rehearsing that information.

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Working Memory

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It is involved in reasoning and decision making.

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Central Executive Processes

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It specializes in visual and spatial information.

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Visual Store

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It holds and manipulate material relating to speech, words, and numbers.

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Verbal Store

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It contains information that represents episodes or events.

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Episodic Buffer

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3 distinct storage-and-rehearsal systems of the Central Executive Processes

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  1. Visual Store
  2. Verbal Store
  3. Episodic Buffer
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It occurs in which items presented early in a list are remembered better.

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Primary Effect

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It is seen, in which items presented late in a list are remembered best.

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Recency Effect

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4 memory modules of Long-term Memory

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  1. Declarative Memory
  2. Procedural Memory
  3. Semantic Memory
  4. Episodic Memory
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It is a memory for factual information; names, faces. dates, and facts.

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Declarative Memory

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It refers to memory for skills and habits.

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Procedural (Nondeclarative) Memory

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Memory for general knowledge and facts about the world, as well as memory for the rules of logic that are used to deduce other facts.

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Semantic Memory

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Memory for events that occur in a particular time, place, or context.

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Episodic Memory

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Mental representations of clusters of interconnected information.

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Semantic Networks

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A process where one memory is activating triggering the activation of related memories.

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Spreading Activation

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The term for physical memory trace in the brain that corresponds to a memory and has proved to be a major puzzle to psychologists and other neuroscientists.

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Engram

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The term for physical memory trace in the brain that corresponds to a memory and has proved to be a major puzzle to psychologists and other neuroscientists.

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Engram

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The term for physical memory trace in the brain that corresponds to a memory and has proved to be a major puzzle to psychologists and other neuroscientists.

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Engram

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The term for physical memory trace in the brain that corresponds to a memory and has proved to be a major puzzle to psychologists and other neuroscientists.

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Engram

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The term for physical memory trace in the brain that corresponds to a memory and has proved to be a major puzzle to psychologists and other neuroscientists interested in memory.

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Engram

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A part of the brain’s limbic system that helps to consolidate memories stabilizing them after they are initially acquired.

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Hippocampus

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Another part of the limbic system that involves in memories including emotions.

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Amygdala

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It shows that certain pathways become easily excited while a new response is being learned.

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Long-term Potentiation

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It is where memories become fixed and stable in long-term memory.

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Consolidation

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The inability to recall information that one realizes one knows, a result of the difficulty of retrieving information from long-term memory.

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Tip-of-the-tongue Phenomenon

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Memory task in which specific information must be retrieved.

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Recall

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Memory task in which individuals are presented with a stimulus and asked whether they have been exposed to it in the past or to identify it from a list of alternatives.

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Recognition

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The theory of memory that emphasizes the degree to which a new material is mentally analyzed.

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Levels-of-Processing Theory

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Intentional or conscious recollection of information.

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Explicit Memory

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Memories of which people are not consciously aware but that can affect subsequent performance and behavior.

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Implicit Memory

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A phenomenon that occurs when exposure to a word or concept later makes it easier to recall information related to the prime.

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Priming

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The concept to where priming is exposed to.

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Prime

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It is where our behavior may be influenced by experience of which we are unaware.

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“Retention without Remembering”

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Memories of specific, important, or surprising emotionally significant event that are recalled easily and with vivid imagery.

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Flashbulb Memories

49
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It occurs when an individual has a memory for some material but cannot recall where he or she encountered it.

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Source Amnesia

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Processes in which memories are influenced by the meaning we give to events.

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Constructive Processes

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A British psychologists that was first to put forward the notion that memory if based on constructive processes.

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Frederic Bartlett

52
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Organized bodies of information stored in memory that bias the way new information is interpreted, stored, and recalled.

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Schemas

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These are apparent recollections of events that are initially so shocking that the mind responds by pushing them into the unconscious.

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Repressed Memories

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A memory researcher that maintain that there is little evidence for the phenomenon of repressed memories.

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Elizabeth Loftus

55
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Representation of so called repressed memories that is may be inaccurate or even wholly false.

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False Memory

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Our recollections of our own life experiences.

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Autobiographical Memory

57
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German psychologist that made the first attempt to study about forgetting.

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Hermann Ebbinghaus

58
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The loss of information in memory through its nonuse.

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Decay

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The phenomenon by which information in memory disrupts the recall of other information.

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Interference

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Forgetting that occurs when there are insufficient retrieval cues to rekindle information that is in memory.

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Cue-dependent Forgetting

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Interference in which information learned earlier disrupts the recall of material learned later.

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Proactive Interference

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Interference in which material that was learned later disrupts the retrieval of information that was learned earlier.

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Retroactive Interference

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A progressive brain disorder that leads to a gradual and irreversible decline in cognitive abilities.

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Alzheimer’s Disease

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Memory loss that occurs without mental difficulties.

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Amnesia

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Amnesia in which memory is lost for occurrences prior to a certain event, but not for new events.

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Retrograde Amnesia

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Amnesia in which memory is lost for events that follow an injury.

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Anterograde Amnesia

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A disease that afflicts long term alcoholics, leaving some abilities intact but including hallucinations and a tendency to repeat the same story.

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Korsakoff’s Syndrome

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A process where people study and rehearse material well beyond initial mastery.

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Overlearning

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3 process of forgetting

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  1. Decay
  2. Interference
  3. Cue-Dependent Forgetting
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2 sorts of Interference

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  1. Proactive Interference
  2. Retroactive Interference

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