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| suggestive memory techniques |
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| procedures that encourage patients to recall memories that may or may not have taken place |
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| false but subjectively compelling memory |
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| seeing the world through your visual field |
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| a memory in which we see ourselves as an outside observer would |
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| how much information a memory system can retain |
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| length of time for which a memory system can retain information |
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| 1st step, brief storage of perceptual information before it passes to STM |
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| memory system that retains information for limited durations |
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| fading of information from memory |
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loss of information from memory because of competition from additional incoming information.
Examples are proactive and retroactive inhibition |
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| interference with retention of old information due to acquisition of new information |
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| interference with acquisition of new information due to previous learning of information |
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| PLUS OR MINUS 2 FROM 7, AH YEAH |
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| organizing information into meaningful groupings, allowing us to extend the span of short-term memory |
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| repeating information to extend the duration of retention in STM |
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| repeating stimuli in their original form to retain them in STM |
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| linking stimuli to each other in a meaningful way to improve retention of information in STM |
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| depth of transforming information, which influences how easily we remember it |
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| sustained (from minutes to years) retention of information stored regarding our facts, experiences, and skills |
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| type of LTM that appears to be permanent |
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| tendency to remember words at the beginning of a list especially well |
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| tendency to remember words at the end of a list especially well |
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| tendency to remember distinctive stimuli better than less distinctive stimuli |
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| graph depicting the effect of both primacy and recency on people;s ability to recall items on a list |
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| our knowledge of facts about the world |
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| recollection of events in our lives |
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| memories we recall intentionally and of which we have conscious awareness |
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| memories we don't deliberately remember or reflect on consciously |
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| memory for how to do things, including motor skills and habits |
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| our ability to identify a stimulus more easily or more quickly after we've encountered similar stimuli |
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| process of getting information into our memory banks |
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| a learning aid, strategy, or device that enhances recall |
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| process of keeping information in memory |
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| organized knowledge structure of mental model that we've stored in memory |
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| reactivation or reconstruction of experiences from our memory stores |
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| hints that makes it easier for us to recall information |
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| generating previously remembered information |
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| selecting previously remembered information from an array of options |
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| reacquiring knowledge that we'd previously learned but largely forgotten |
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| distributed versus massed practice |
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| studying information in small increments over time (distributed) versus in large increments over a brief amount of time (massed) |
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| tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) phenomenon |
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| the experience of knowing that we know something but being unable toe access it |
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| the phenomenon of remembering something better when the conditions under which we retrieve information are similar to the conditions under which we encoded it |
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| context-dependent learning |
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| superior retrieval of memories when the external context of the original memories matches the retrieval context |
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| superior retrival of memories when the organism is in the same physiological of psychological state as it was during encoding |
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| Long-Term potentiation LTP |
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| gradual strengthening of the connections among neurons from repetitive stimulation |
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| lost of memories from our past |
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| inability to encode new memories from our experiences |
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| inability to encode new memories from our experiences |
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| knowledge about our own memory abilities and limitations |
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| inability of adults to remember personal experiences that took place before an early age |
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| emotional memories that are extraordinarily fitted and detailed |
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| failure to recognize that our ideas originated with somebody else |
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| ability to identify the origins of a memory |
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| creation of fictitious memories by providing misleading information about and event after it takes place |
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