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clear memory of a an emotional significant event
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process of information into the memory system
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| the retention of encoded memory over time |
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| process of getting information out of the memory system |
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| the immediate, very brief recording of sensory information in the memory system |
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| short term/working memory |
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| activated memory that holds a few items briefly, such as the seven digits of a phone number while dialing |
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| relativiley permanent and limitless storehouse of the memroy system |
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| unconsious encoding of incidental information. Example: route to class |
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processing that needs attention and concsious effort
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| when people go in a line to remember a word (usually a name) and their poorest memories are what was said by the person before them. |
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| conscious repetition of information |
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| distributing studying, practice to get better long term retention |
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| our tendency to remember the first and last items |
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| remembering something more positive then negative |
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| Good recall on information you can relate to yourself |
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| organizing items into familiar terms |
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| organizing information into categories to retrieve information quicker |
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| momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli. lasts 1/20th of a second |
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| sensory memory of auditory stimuli. Lasts 3-4 seconds in the echoic chamber |
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| Long term potentiation (LTP) |
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| increas of synapses firing potential after brief rapid stimulation. Synapses increases in effeciency |
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| retention independent of concsious recollection. Learning to play a game faster. Cerebellum |
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| having no memory of expierences and cant declare it. Damage to hippocampus |
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| helps proccess explicit memories |
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| helps process implicit memories |
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| When you cant remember something somethingbefore the age of 3 |
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| retrive information learned earlier. Fill in blank test. |
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| a measure of memory where the person only needs to identify terms. like on a multiple choice test |
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| the amount of time saved to relearn |
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| activation, often unconsiously,of particular associations |
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| a place and thing that reminds you something. "Dull Pencil" |
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| that eerie sense that you experienced this before. |
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| where ever you learn in one state is sometimes more easily to remember when you are back in that state |
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| tendency to remember things that the same as your mood. |
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| disruptive of prior learning on the recall on new learning |
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| disruptive of new learning on the recall of old learning |
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| our memory's self censor of painfull information |
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| incorporating misleading information into ones memory of an event. "did the car SMASH into the other." |
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| attributing to the wrong source of an event we have experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined. |
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| Learning material meaningfull takes 1/10 the effort. Forgetting curve at ends levels off. |
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| Study of semantic, acoustic, and visual. |
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| Encoding: encoding using heirarchies. |
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| Showed people 3 rows of letters for only 1/20th of a second. Discovered iconinc memory |
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| short term memory decay. Count back by 3's. longer mind is diverted the less it remembers with out active processing. |
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| Misinformation effect. Can change memories by retrieval ques. |
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