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        | misplacing items, lack of attention, failure to encode into working memory |  | 
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        | memory loss characterized by loss of past memories |  | 
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        | Memory loss characterized by unable to form new long-term memories |  | 
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        | When a sensation grabs our attention, we are likely to pay attention to it and transfer it to out working memory. |  | 
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        | Sets of interconnected structures in the brain involved in forming procedural memories and habits related to movement |  | 
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        | Tendency to believe that some peoples ideas, etc. are better than others usually resulting in treating people unfairly |  | 
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        | Retrieval failure. answer question on tip of tongue example of blocking |  | 
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        | part of the brain involved in conditioning and forming procedural memories and habits to movement |  | 
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        | By organizing pieces of information into chunks we can store more of that info in working memory |  | 
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        | implicit memories are formed through conditioning   ie scared of clowns |  | 
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        | Describes person's ability to better retrieve info when in the same context in which the info we first encoded |  | 
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        | level of processing in which s words meaning is encoded |  | 
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        | 1-Misattention 2-Suggestibility 3-Bias |  | 
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        | May remember parts of event correctly |  | 
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        | suggestion regarding memory |  | 
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        | requires paying explicit attention to the info to be remembered |  | 
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        | Encoding Storage Retrieval |  | Definition 
 
        | Encodes info and stores it away for future use |  | 
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        | encoding- what do we encode |  | Definition 
 
        | images-sound and meanings |  | 
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        | You may not retrieve info previously stored |  | 
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        | If we don't intend to remember info we have no trouble removing that info from working memory |  | 
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        | graphical reprensentation of how quickly a person's memories fade over time |  | 
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        | Technically while your reading you think you are encoding info the info thought stops the encoding- so it was not encoded at all |  | 
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        | forgetting - retrieval failure |  | Definition 
 
        | Interference-Proactive-Retroactive interference-Storage Decay-forgetting cue |  | 
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        | Hippocampus  processing elicit memories |  | 
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        | when A PERSON IS REPEATEDDLY EXPOSED TO A STIMULUS(such as a clown  over a period of time the person's response to that stimuli eventually decreases ver time |  | 
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        | LARGELY RESPONSIBLE FOR PROCESSING OUR EXPLICIT MEMORIES-ASSISTED in memory formation |  | 
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        | ability to briefly and accurately remember sounds |  | 
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        | Elaborate rehearsal long term memory |  | Definition 
 
        | when we elaborate we give meaning to the info itself is fairly meaningless encoding |  | 
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        | one of which are consciously aware. We remember certain facts or experiences |  | 
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        | Some explicit memories contain facial and contextual info that is not directly linked to life events. |  | 
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        | ability is facilitated by a form of sensory memory |  | 
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        | we are not consciously aware of our implicit memories |  | 
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        | implicit memories  - priming |  | Definition 
 
        | Researcher subjects by presenting them with a stimulus (usually very quickly) before asking subjects to complete a task |  | 
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        | the art of wrongfully entering upon, seizing or taking possession of the property of another. |  | 
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        | When memories from strong neural connections we remember those memories more easily |  | 
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        | devices are memory aids thata give rhyme and reason to lists of other pieces of info,  encoding |  | 
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        | brain system for filing away new info and retrieving previously learned material |  | 
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        | Sensory memory working memory
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        | sensory memory and the brain |  | Definition 
 
        | Visual Cortex, auditory cortex, frontal lobe |  | 
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        | Absent mindedness transience
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        | memory three sins of distortion: |  | Definition 
 
        | Misattribution, suggestibility, bias |  | 
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        | Memory on sin of intrusion |  | Definition 
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        | memory critical serve as a reminder that the world we perceive and "real" world are not always the same
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        | remembers the first few items long enough to put into storage |  | 
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        | phenomenon in which previously learned info interferes with a person's ability to recall new info. |  | 
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        | consists of habits and skills that we perform. Riding a bike and playing an instrument are both examples of procedural memory |  | 
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        | given a list of items to remember we will be able to remember the last few items on the lists without much difficulty |  | 
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        | We can increase time of stored material is process of repeating info either ut loud or silent with the intent of learning that info |  | 
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        | stimulus that helps a person retrieve info from memory |  | 
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        | retrieve from long term memory |  | Definition 
 
        | Recognition on recall??  Retrieval cues-context effect-retrieval cue-state-dependent memory |  | 
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        | phenomenon in which previously learned info interferes with a person's ability to recall new info |  | 
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        | serial position effect SPE |  | Definition 
 
        | Our ability to recall (or not to recall) items depending on their position in a list is called SPE |  | 
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        | Process in which a word's wound or appearance- has been encoded |  | 
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        | stored memory that is more easily retrieved when a piece in the same state as that were when the info was first encoded |  | 
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        | levels of processing-shallow processing- deep processing
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        | phenomenon in which many of a person's memories fade over time |  | 
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        | suggestions not actual facts |  | 
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        | areas between neurons across which never impulses travel from one neuron to the next |  | 
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        | memories are not permanent-fade over time-storage decay |  | 
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        | automatic processing - refers to the fact that we often pay attention to certain things without being aware that we are doing so. |  | 
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        | states in general that performance peaks with moderate level of arouaal |  | 
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