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| Tendency to recall best the last and first items in a list. |
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| Memory aids, especially those techniques that use vivid imagery and organizational devices. |
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| The encoding of meaning, including the meaning of words. |
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| A momentary sensory memory of a visual stimuli; a photographic or picture-image memory lasting no more than a few tenths of a second. |
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| Long-term potentiation (LTP) |
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| An increase in a synapse's firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation. Believed to be a neural basis for learning and memory. |
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| A clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event. |
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| Implicit memory (Nondeclarative memory) |
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| Retention independent of conscious recollection. |
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| Explicit memory (Declarative memory) |
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| Memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and declare. |
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| Explicit memories for facts and episodes are processed in the hippocampus and fed to other brain regions for storage. |
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| The cerebellum plays an important part in our forming and storing of implicit memories. |
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| The activation, often unconsciously, of particular associations in memory. |
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| The tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with one's current good or bad mood. |
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| The disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information |
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| The disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information. |
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| Incorporating misleading information into one's memory of an event. |
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| Attributing to the wrong source an event we have experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined. Along with the misinformation effect, SA is the heart of many false memories. |
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| Incorporating misleading information into one's memory of an event. |
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