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| a word formed from the initial letters of several words you wish to remember |
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| creating a sentense in which the letter of each word stands for the initial letters of the items you wish to remember |
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| the loss of explicit memory |
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| the inability to form new memories following an injury to the brain |
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| a mnemonic device in which an individual groups items into categories to facilitate recall |
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| the process of reorganizing material so as to admit more units, or bits, of information into short-term memory |
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| the type of memory built by ecperiences and expectations |
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| the idea that information is forgotten because it gradually disappears over time, rather than because it is displaced by other information |
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| a recognition and understanding of factual information |
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| the transfer of information from short-term to long-term memory |
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| an individual's memory for personal events and life episodes |
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| a form of memory in which an individual consciously acts to recall or recognize particular information |
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| memories of extraordinary events that contain strong emotional components |
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| a form of memory in which an individual recalls or recognizes information without consciously being aware of doing so |
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| a mnemonic device in which an individual links isolated words by creating visual representations for the words and then picturing interactions among the items |
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| a memory store of unlimited capacity that can hold information indefinitley |
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| a mnemonic device in which an individual visualizes a familiar area with distinctive landmarks that can be linked (via interactive images) with items to be remembered. Items are remembered when the individual mentally walks past each landmark |
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| memory aids that increase the amount of information a person can remember |
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| a mnemonic device in which an individual links a familiar list of items with unfamiliar items on a new list via interactive images |
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| the tendency for items at the beginning of a list to be remembered better than items in the middle |
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| interference in the learning of new information caused by existing memories |
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| a recognition and awareness of how to preform particular tasks, skills, or procedures |
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| the tendency for items at the end of the list to be remembered better than the items in the middle |
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| memories of information about events or facts exactly as the events or facts took place |
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| the conscious repetition of material in short-term memory |
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| the process through which working memory brings a stored memory into consciousness for use in active cognitive processing |
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| interference in the retrieval of old memories caused by newly learned information |
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| the loss of memory for events that preceded a brain injury |
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| a personal interpretation of sensory event that biases the memory of the event |
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| the memory for particular features of the environment, including language |
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| a brief representation of what is being sensed |
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| the tendency for items at the beginning and end of the list to be remembered better than those in the middle |
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| a temporary memory store of limited capacity that lasts about 15 to 30 seconds |
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| the process of holding incoming information in consciousness and retrieving and manipulating information from long-term memory, enabling cognitive tasks such as learning and thinking |
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