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| The nervous system's capacity to acquire and retain skills and knowledge |
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| The processing of information so that it can be stored |
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| The retention of encoded representations over time |
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| The act of recalling or remembering stored information when it is needed |
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| A process by which immediate memories become lasting (or long-term) memories |
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| Neural processes involved when memories are recalled and then stored again for later retrieval |
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| Processing multiple types of information at the same time |
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| A failure to notice large changes in one's environment |
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| A memory system that very briefly stores sensory information in close to its original sensory form |
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| A memory storage system that briefly holds a limited amount of information in awareness |
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| An active processing system that keeps different types of information available for current use |
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| Organizing information into meaningful units to make it easier to remember |
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| The relativity permanent storage of information |
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| The ability to recall items from a list depends on order of presentation, with items presented early or late in the list remembered better than those in the middle |
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| Cognitive structures that help us perceive, organize, process, and use information |
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| Anything that helps a person (or a nonhuman animal) recall information stored in long-term memory |
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| Encoding Specificity Principle |
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| The idea that any stimulus that is encoded along with an experience can later trigger memory for the experience |
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| Learning aids, strategies, and devices that improve recall through the use of retrieval cues |
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| The system underlying unconscious memories |
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| The system underlying conscious memories |
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| The cognitive information retrieved from explicit memory; knowledge that can be declared |
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| Memory for one's personal past experiences |
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| Memory for knowledge about the world |
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| A type of implicit memory that involves motor skills and behavioral habits |
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| Remembering to do something at some future time |
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| The inability to retrieve memory from long-term storage |
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| When prior information inhibits the ability to remember new information |
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| When new information inhibits the ability to remember old information |
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| The temporary inability to remember something that is known |
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| The inattentive or shallow encoding of events |
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| A deficit in long-term memory, resulting from disease, brain injury, or psychological trauma, in which the individual loses the ability to retrieve vast quantities of information from long-term memory |
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| A condition in which people lose past memories, such as memories for events, facts, people, or even personal information |
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| A condition in which people lose the ability to form new memories |
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| The continual recurrence of unwanted memories |
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| The changing of memories over time so that they become consistent with current beliefs or attitudes |
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| Vivid episodic memories for the circumstances in which people first learned of a surprising, consequential, or emotionally arousing event |
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| Memory distortion that occurs when people misremember the time, place, person, or circumstances involved with a memory |
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| A type of amnesia that occurs when a person shows memory for an event but cannot remember where he or she encountered the information |
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| A type of misattribution that occurs when a person thinks he or she has come up with a new idea, yet has only retrieved a stored idea and failed to attribute the idea to its proper source |
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| The development of biased memories from misleading information |
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| The unintended false recollection of episodic memories |
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