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| Continued rehearsal of material after one first appears to have mastered it. |
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| Parallel distributed proccessing (PDP) Models |
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| Models of memory that assume cognitive processes depend on patterns of activation in highly interconnected computational networks that resemble neural networks. Also called connectionist models. |
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| Simultaneously extracting different kinds of information from the same input. |
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A memory problem that occurs when previously learned information interferes with the retention of
new information |
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| The repository of memories for actions, skills, and operations. |
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| The ability to remember to perform actions in the future. |
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The process of deciding whether memories are based on external sources (our perceptions of
actual events) or internal sources (our thoughts and imaginations) |
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| A memory test that requires subjects to reproduce information on their own without any cues. |
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| A memory test that requires subjects to select previously learned information from an array of options. |
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| A memory test that requires a subject to memorize information a second time to determine how much time or effort is saved by having learned it before. |
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| Keeping distressing thoughts and feelings buried in the unconscious. |
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| The proportion of material retained (remembered). |
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| Recovering information from memory stores. |
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A memory problem that occurs when new information impairs the retention of previously learned
information. |
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| Loss of memories for events that occurred prior to a head injury. |
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| The ability to remember events from the past or previously learned information. |
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| An organized cluster of knowledge about a particular object or sequence of events. |
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| A type of schema that organizes what people know about common activities. |
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| Deciding how or whether information is personally relevant. |
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| General knowledge that is not tied to the time when the information was learned. |
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| Concepts joined together by links that show how the concepts are related. |
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The preservation of information in its original sensory form for a brief time, usually only a fraction of
a second. |
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In memory tests, the fact that subjects show better recall for items at the beginning and end of a list
than for items in the middle. |
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| A limited-capacity store that can maintain unrehearsed information for about 20 to 30 seconds. |
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| The process of making attributions about the origins of memories. |
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| An error that occurs when a memory derived from one source is misattributed to another source. |
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| Maintaining encoded information in memory over time. |
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| Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon |
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| A temporary inability to remember something accompanied by a feeling that it's just out of reach. |
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| Transfer-appropriate processing |
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| The situation that occurs when the initial processing of information is similar to the type of processing required by the subsequent measures of attention. |
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