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| a model describing memory as consisting of three distinct stages: sensory memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory. |
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| the stage of memory that register information from the environment and holes it for a very brief period of time |
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| the active stage of memory in which information is stored for up to about 20 seconds. |
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| the stage of memory that represents the long term storage of information. |
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| Organizing items into related groups during recall from long-term memory. |
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| The tendency to remember items at the beginning and end of a list better than items in the middle. |
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| Focus your attention, commit the necessary time, space your study sessions, organize the information. |
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| Elaborate on teh material, use visual imagery, use a mnemonic device, explain it to a friend |
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| Reduce interference within a topic, counteract the serial position effect, use contextual cues to jog memories, sleep on it to help consolidate those memories, forget the ginkgo biloba |
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| the inability to recall information that was previously available. |
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| Memory for when, where and how a particular piece of information was acquired. |
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| the view that forgetting is due to normal metabolic processes that occur in the brain over time. |
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| the theory that forgetting is caused by one memory competing with or replacing another. |
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| forgetting in which a new memory interferes with remembering an old memory; backward acting memory interference |
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| forgetting in which an old memory interferes with remembering a new memory; forward acting memory interference |
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| motivated forgetting that occurs conciously |
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| motivated forgetting that occurs unconsciously |
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| a test of long-term memory that involves retrieving information without the aid of retrieval cues |
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| a test of long term memory that involves identifying correct information out of several possible choices |
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| the tendency to remember items at the beginning and end of a list better than items in the middle. |
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