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| Remembering information and events from your own life. |
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| Processes that are fast, reliable, and insensitive to increased cognitive demands. |
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| Factors that provide flexibility in responding and adapting to changes in the environment. |
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| The ability to pay attention and successfully perform more than one task at a time. |
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| It requires all of the available attentional capacity when processing information. |
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| The process of getting information into the memory system. |
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| The general class of memory having to do with the conscious recollection of information from a specific event or point in time. |
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| The conscious and intentional recollection of information. |
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| Memory aids that rely on environmental resources. |
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| When one remembers items or events that did not occur. |
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| The effortless and unconscious recollection of information. |
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| Information-Processing Approach |
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| The study of how people take in stimuli from their environment and transform it into memories; that approach is based on the computer metaphor. |
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| Memory aids that rely on mental processing. |
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| The aspects of memory involved in remembering rather extensive amounts of information over relatively long periods of time. |
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| the awareness of what we are doing in memory right now. |
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| The belief in one's ability to perform a specific memory task. |
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| Memory about how memory works and what one believes to be true about it. |
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| The amount of attention one has to apply to a particular situation. |
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| Process involving remembering to remember something in the future. |
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| Process of remembering information without the use of hints or cues. |
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| Process of remembering information by selecting previously learned information from among several items. |
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| Process by which information is held in working memory, either by repeating items over and over or by making meaningful connections between the information in working memory and information already known. |
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| The process of getting information back out of memory. |
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| Learning and remembering the meaning of words and concepts that are not tied to specific occurrences of events in time. |
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| The earliest step in information processing where new, incoming information is the first to register. |
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| When individuals use their world knowledge to construct a more global understanding of what a text is about. |
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| The ability to remember the source of a familiar event as well as determine if an event was imagined or actually experienced. |
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| How quickly and efficiently the early steps in information processing are completed. |
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| The manner in which information is represented and kept in memory. |
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| Various techniques that make learning or remembering easier and that increase the efficiency of storage. |
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| Refers to the process and structures involved in holding information in mind and simultaneously using that information sometimes in conjunction with incoming information, to solve a problem, make a decision, or learn new information. |
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