Memory

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Recall

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Retrieving information that is not currently in your conscious awareness but that was learned at a earlier time. Fill in the blank

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Memory

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Learning that has persisted over time that has been stored and can be retrieved

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Recognition

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Identifying items previously learned. Multiple choice

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Relearning

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Learning something more quickly when you learn it another time.

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Information-processing models

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Analogies that compare human memory to a computers operations

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Encoding

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Getting info into our brain

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Storage

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Retaining that info

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Retrieval

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Later getting that info back out

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Connectionism

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Views memories as products of interconnected neural networks

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Sensory memory

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The immediate, very brief recording of sensory information in the memory system

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Short-term memory

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Activated memory that holds a few items briefly

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Long-term memory

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Relatively permanent and limitless storage house of the memory system

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Working memory

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Active processing, focuses on conscious,

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Explicit memories

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Facts and experiences that we can consciously know and declare

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Effortful processing

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Encoding that requires attention and conscious effort

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Automatic processing

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Uncon encoding of incidental info

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Implicit memories

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Retention independent of conscious recollection

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Iconic memory

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A momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli

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Echoic memory

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A momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli

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Chunking

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Organizing items into familiar, manageable units

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Mnemonics

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Memory aid

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Hierarchies

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Few broad concepts divided and subdivided into narrower concepts and facts

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Spacing effect

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

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Testing effect

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Enhanced memory after retrieving, repeated self testing

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Shallow processing

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Encoding on a basic level

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Deep processing

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Meaning of words

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Anterograde amnesia

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An inability to form new memories

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Retrograde amnesia

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Inability to retrieve information from ones past

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Hippocampus

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A neural center located in the limbic system. Helps process explicit memories for storage

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Flashbulb memories

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A clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event

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Long-term potentiation

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An increase in a cells firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation. Believed to be a neural basis for learning and memory

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Priming

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The activation of particular a associations in memory

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Mood congruent

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The tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with ones current good of bad mood

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Serial position effect

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Tendency to recall best the last and first items in a list.