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Psychology Chapter 7
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Psychology
11th Grade
11/18/2010

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Encoding
Definition
Putting coded information into memory
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Storage
Definition
Maintaining coded information in memory
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Retrieval
Definition
Recovering information from memory stores
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Retrospective memory
Definition
Involves remembering events from the past or previous learned information
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Misinformation effect
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Occurs when participants recall of an event they witnesses is altered by introducing postevent information
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Short-term memory (STM)
Definition
A limited capacity memory store that can maintain unrehearshed information for 20 to 30 seconds
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Rehearsal
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The process of repetitively verbalizing or thinking about new information
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Chunk
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A group of familiar stimuli stored as a single unit
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Long-term memory (LTM)
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An unlimited capacity memort store that can hold information over lengthy periods of time, should be forever
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Flashbulb memory
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Unusually vivid and
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