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| the ability to store and retrieve information over time |
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| the process by which we transform what we perceive, think, or feel into an enduring memory |
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| the process of maintaining information in memory over time |
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| the process of bringing to mind information that has been previously encoded and stored |
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| Memories are actually constructed, not recorded (hence, encoding) |
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| Semantic, Rhyme and Visual Judgments |
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| lower left frontal lobe. meaning |
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| upper left frontal lobe. sound |
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| occipital lobe. appearance |
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| inner left temporal lobe & lower left frontal lobe. relating new information to knowledge that is already in memory |
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| occipital lobe. the process of storing new information by converting it into mental pictures |
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| Why do we remember better when we interact pictures? |
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- relate the items to-be-remembered with the items remembered
- requires 2 mental placeholder: visual and verbal |
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| dorsal surface of the left frontal lobe. the act of categorizing information by noticing the relationships among a series of items |
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| sensory memory store, short-term memory storage and working memory and long term storage |
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| Visual imagery encoding, organizational encoding, elaborative encoding |
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| the process of maintaining information in memory over time |
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| the place in which sensory information is kept for a few seconds or less |
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| a fast-decaying store of visual information |
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| a fast-decaying store of auditory information |
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| a place where non-sensory information is kept for more than a few seconds but less than a minute. fades rapidly in accuracy and total recall |
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| the process of keeping information in short-term memory by mentally repeating it |
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| combining small pieces of information into larger clusters or chunks that are more easily held in short-term memory |
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| active maintenance of information in short-term memory |
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| a place where information can be kept for hours, days, weeks, or years |
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| the inability to retrieve information that was acquired before a particular date, usually the date of an injury or operation |
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| the inability to transfer new information from the short-term store into the long-term store |
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| like a memory index for the cortex, gathering separate pieces of experience and integrating them into one memory; but, not the final storage site for those long-term memories |
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| Long-term potentiation (LTP) |
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| enhanced neural processing that results from the strengthening of synaptic connections |
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| a type of receptor site in the brain that influences the flow of information from one neuron to another across the synapse by controlling the initiation of LTP |
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| external information that is associated with stored information and helps bring it to mind |
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| Encoding specificity principle |
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| the idea that a retrieval cue can serve as an effective reminder when it helps re-create the specific way the information was initially encoded |
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| State-dependent Retrieval |
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| the tendency for information to be better recalled when the person is in the same state during encoding and retrieval |
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| Transfer-appropriate Processing |
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| the idea that memory is likely to transfer from one situation to another when we process information in a way that is appropriate to the retrieval cues that will be available later |
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| the act of consciously or intentionally retrieving past experiences |
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| the influence of past experiences on later behavior and performance, even though people are not trying to recollect them and are not aware that they are remembering them |
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| the gradual acquisition of skills as a result of practice, or “knowing how” to do things |
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| a network of associated facts and concepts that make up our general knowledge of the world |
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| the collection of past personal experiences that occurred at a particular time and place |
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| Transience, Absentmindedness, Bias, Blocking, Suggestibility, Memory Mis-attribution, Persistence |
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| forgetting what occurs with the passage of time |
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| a lapse in attention that results in memory failure |
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| Occurs during the storage phase, after encoding and before retrieval |
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| a failure to retrieve information that is available in memory even though you are trying to produce it |
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| situations in which later learning impairs memory for information acquired earlier |
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| situations in which earlier learning impairs memory for information acquired later |
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| rapid decline of savings from the time since the original learning that levels off and remains relatively stable after several hours or a day |
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| remembering to do things in the future. major source of absentmindedness |
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| assigning a recollection or an idea to the wrong source |
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| recall of when, where, and how information was acquired |
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| a feeling of familiarity about something that has not been encountered before |
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| FRONTAL LOBE DAMAGE. HIPPOCAMPUS |
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| MEMORY MISATTRIBUTION IS A RESULT OF DAMAGE TO WHICH PART? WHICH PART IS ACTIVE DURING CORRECT AND FALSE RECOGNITION? |
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| the tendency to incorporate misleading information from external sources into personal recollections |
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| the distorting influences of present knowledge, beliefs, and feelings on recollection of previous experiences |
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| reconstruction of the past to fit what we presently know or believe |
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| exaggeration of the difference between what we feel or believe now and what we felt or believed in the past |
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| EGOCENTRIC (SELF-ENHANCING) BIAS |
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| exaggeration of the change between the present and past to make ourselves look good in retrospect |
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| the intrusive recollection of events that we wish we could forget |
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| AMYGDALA DAMAGE (NEAR HIPPOCAMPUS) OF TEMPORAL LOBE |
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| persistence is nonexist if which part of the brain is damaged? |
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