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| Depictive representations |
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Visual, cannot refer to nonpicturable events or relations
No explicit specification of relations. Can only visualize specific instances.
There is an acute similarity between real visual info and visual imagery. |
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| Propositional representations |
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Objects and the relations between objects. Ball is on the box
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| simple rehearsal; repeating items over and over |
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| Deep semantic processing of to be remembered item |
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| IF one item in a list differs from the others, it is better recalled |
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| Linking a stimulus to another at time of encoding, such as generating your on examples of a given topic. When I think of a soccer ball, I think of lionel messi |
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The process of grouping discrete, individual items into larger units based on specific relationships among the items. \
Sports teams in the same league, jungle animals |
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Process by which the attributes of memory are established.
Basically, the means by which long term memory is created |
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| Recreation of encoded events that, when taken together and filled with current info, comprise your memory of something. |
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| The outer environment of physical space or events occurring that, when replicated, can trigger a memory |
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| State of mind that when replicated can cue better memory recall |
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| During encoding events and items are associated with the time that you encoded them, such as your 15th birthday. |
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| After recalling a given word, the next word recalled most often comes from a word either right before or right after first word recalled. Context cue of first recalled word. |
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| An action that occurs that is necessary if a memory is to be solidified into a retrievable form. |
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| Brain damage impairs recently formed memories to a greater extent than older memories. |
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| Memory fades over the passage of time |
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| New information interferes with ability to recall old information |
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Old information interferes with ability to recall new info.
Pro quals old>new, retro equals new>old |
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| When multiple memories can potentially be brought up by the same cue; such as me chewing mint gum while I study reminding me of multiple different answers at once. |
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| The more information that is subsumed under a given retrieval code, the lower your chance of retrieving any particular piece of information |
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Connected to cue overload
As list of words increases, probability of memorizing any single word decreases |
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