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| example of motivated forgetting |
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| sensory memories of auditory stimuli |
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| brief immediate recall of the last items on a list |
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| activating associations in order to retrieve a specific memory |
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| LTP (long-term potentiation) |
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| believed to be the neural basis for learning and memory |
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| organizing material into familiar. meaningful units |
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| unusually vivid memory of an emotionally important moment |
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| effortful repetition of information |
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| measure of retention that requires identifying previously learned material |
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| immediate, initial recording of information in memory |
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| an effect in which eyewitnesses to an event incorporate misleading information in their memories |
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| type of processing that requires attention and some degree of work |
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| brain area that processes explicit memories for storage |
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| type of memory of skills, preferences, and dispositions |
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| encoding of information into memory according to its sound |
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| unconscious encoding of incidental information into memory |
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| type of interference in which old knowledge interferes with new learning |
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| relatively permanent memory that is unlimited in capacity |
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| encoding that uses imagery to process information into memory |
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| false sense of having already experienced a situation |
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| stage of speech development characterized by the spontaneous utterance of speech sounds |
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| system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others |
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| methodical problem-solving strategy that guarantees success |
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| chimp that was taught sign language by the Gardners |
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| sudden and often creative solution to a problem |
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| theorist who formulated the linguistic determinism hypothesis |
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| inability to approach a problem in a new way |
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| economical speech of children in the two-word stage |
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| idea that language determines the way we think |
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| simple thinking strategy for solving problems |
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| best example of a particular category |
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| how an issue or question is posed |
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| mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating information |
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| heuristic based on estimating the probability of events in terms of how readily they come to mind |
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| tendency to continue applying a particular problem-solving strategy even when it is no longer helpful |
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| smallest units of language that convey meaning |
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| stage of language development that occurs between 1 and 2 years of age |
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| aspect of grammar specifying the rules for combining words into grammatical sentences |
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| stage of language development that begins about age 2 |
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| mental grouping of similar objects, events, or people |
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