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| storage of visual and auditory input that last a few seconds |
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| receives information from sensory memory and has a limited span |
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| receives information from short term memory and stores it permanently |
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| capacity of short term memory for items |
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| capacity to recall items presented in a sequence with first and last items recalled best |
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| practice by repetition of an item of information to encourage transfer into LTM (shallow encoding) |
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| loss of items from STM by new items arriving |
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| loss of items from STM by degradation (causes forgetting) |
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| method of expanding the STM span by grouping items |
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| method of encouraging transfer of information to LTM by adding structure (deep encoding) |
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| method of encouraging transfer of information to LTM by adding meaning (deep encoding) |
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| use of non-semantic methods of transfer of information to LTM |
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| use of semantic methods of transfer of information to LTM |
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| recall of information from memory |
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| aids to the retrieval of memories from LTM related to time and place that the original memory was laid down |
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