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| referring to the interval of memories in which those memories are altered, revised, or influenced by newer information |
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| loss of memory due to the passage of time, during which the memory trace is not used. |
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| type of long-term memory containing information that is conscious and known. |
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| another name for decay, assuming the memories that are not used will eventually decay and disappear. |
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| a method of transferring information from STM into LTM by making that information meaningful in some way. |
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| failure to process information into memory |
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| memory that is consciously known, such as declarative memory |
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| type of automatic encoding that occurs because an unexpected event has strong emotional associations for the person remembering it |
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| memory that is not easily brought into conscious awareness, such as procedural memory |
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| the system of memory into which all the information is placed to be kept more or less permanently |
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| practice os saying some information to be remembered over and over in one's head in order to maintain it in short-term memory. |
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| the ability to match a piece of information or a stimulus to a stored image or fact |
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| type of declarative memory containing general knowledge, such as knowledge of language and information learned in formal information |
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| model of memory that assumes information is stored in the brain in a connected fashion, with concepts that are related stored physically closer to each other than concepts that are not highly related. |
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| the very first stage of memory, the point at which information enters the nervous system through the sensory systems. |
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| the memory system in which information is held for brief periods of time while being used. |
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| holding onto information for some period of time |
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