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| The mental capacity to encode, store, and retrieve information |
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| conscious effort to encode or recover information through memory processes |
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| Availability of information through memory processes without conscious effort to encode or recover them |
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| memory for information such as facts and events |
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| Memory for how things get done; the way perceptual, cognitive, and motor skills are acquired, retained, and used. |
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| The process by which a mental representation is formed in memory |
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| The retention of encoded material over time |
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| The recovery of stored information from memory |
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| Memory system in the visual domain that allows large amounts of information to be stored for very brief durations |
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| Memory processes associated with preservation of recent experiences and with retrieval of information from long-term memory; short-term memory is of limited capacity and stores information for only a short length of time without rehearsal |
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| The process of taking single items of information and recoding them on the basis of similarity of some other organizing principle |
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| A memory resource that is used to accomplish tasks such as reasoning and language comprehension |
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| Memory processes associated with the preservation of information for retrieval at any later time |
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| A method of retrieval in which an individual is required to reproduce the information previously presented |
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| A method of retrieval in which an individual is required to identify stimuli as having been experienced before |
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| Long-term memory for an autobiographical event and the context in which it occurred |
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| Generic, categorical memory, such as the meaning of words and concepts |
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| The principle that subsequent retrieval of information is enhanced if cues received at the time of recall are consistent with those present at the time of encoding |
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| A characteristic of memory retrieval in which the recall of beginning and end items on a list is often better than recall of items appearing in the middle |
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| Improved memory for items at the start of a list |
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| Improved memory for items at the end of a list |
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| In the assessment of implicit memory, the advantage conferred by prior exposure to a word or situation |
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| Circumstances in which past memories make it more difficult to encode and retrieve new information |
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| Circumstances in which the formation of new memories makes it more difficult to recover older memories |
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| Strategy or device that uses familiar information during the encoding of new information to enhance subsequent access to the information in memory |
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| Implicit or explicit knowledge about memory abilities and effective memory strategies; cognition about memory |
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| General conceptual framework, or cluster of knowledge, regarding objects, people, and situations; knowledge package that encodes generalizations about the structure of the environment. |
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| The process of putting information together based on general types of stored knowledge in the absence of a specific memory representation |
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| People's vivid and richly detailed memory in response to persoanl or public events that have great emotional significance |
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