PSYC317CH5

Question 1

coding

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semantic elaboration of information to make it easier to remember

Question 2

cognitive interview

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the use of cognitively based retrieval techniques to imporove recall

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coneptually driven process

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a process that is influenced by a person’s strategies

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control process

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a strategy that determines how information is processed

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data-driven process

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a process that is influenced by the stimulus material

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direct memory test

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a test that asks people to recall or recognize past events

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episodic memory

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memory of specific events, including when and where they occurred

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explicit memory

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memory evaluated by direct memory test

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imaging

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creating visual images to make material easier to remember.

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implicit memory

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memory evaluated by indirect memory tests

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indirect memory test

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a test that does not explicitly ask about past events but is influenced by memory of past events

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knowledge acquisition

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storage of information in long-term memory

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long-term memory (LTM)

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memory that has no capacity limits and lasts from minutes to an entire lifetime.

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metacognition

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the selection of strategies for processing information

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naturalistic study

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a study of the tip-of the-tongue state in which people record these event as they occur outside the laboratory

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primacy effect

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the better recall of words at the beginning of a list

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priming

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facilitation in the detection or recognition of a stimulus by using prior information

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procedural memory

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memory for actions, skills, and operations

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recency effect

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the better recall of words at the end of a list

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recognition memory

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deciding whether an item haad preciously occurred ina specified context

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rehersal

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repeating verbal information to keep it active in short-term memory or to transfer it into long-term memory

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retrieval fluency

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the ease with wich an item can be recalled

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retrieval strategy

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a strategy for recalling infomraiton from long-term memory

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rote learning

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learning by repetition rather than through understanding

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semantic memory

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memory of general knowledge not associated with a particular context

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serial position effect

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the ability to recall words at the beginning and end of a list better than words in the middle of the list

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spontaneous retrieval

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a terieval that occurs without making a conscious effort to recall information

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tip of the tounge (TOT)

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a retrieval state in which a person feels he or she knows the information but cannot immediately retieve it to approximate the behavior of neural networks in the brain