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| The persistence of learning over time throught and retrieval of information |
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| the processing of information into the memory system -for expample extracting meaning |
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| the retention of encoded information .over time |
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| the process of getting information out of memory storage |
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| the immediate,very brief recording of sensory information in the memory system |
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| activated memory that holds a few items briefly,such as the seven digits of a phone number while dialing,before the information is stored . |
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| The relatively permanent and limitless strohouse of the memory system. Includes knowledge,skill, and experiences. |
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| a newer understanding of short memory that involves conscious,active procesing of incoming auditory and visual-spatial information,and of information retrieved from long-term memory. |
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| Unconscious encoding of incidental information,such as space,time,and frequency,and of well-learned information,such as word meaning. |
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| Encoding that requires attention and conscious effort. |
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| the conscious repetition of information,either to maintain it in consciousness or to encode it for strorage |
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| the tendency for distributed study or practise to yield better long term retention than is achived throught massed study or practise |
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| our tendency to recall best the last and first items in a list |
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| mental pictures; a powerful aid to efforful processing |
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| memory aids ,especially those techniques thatuse vivid imaginary and organizational devices |
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| organazing items into familiar,manageable units ;often occurs automatically |
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| a momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli;a photographic or picture-image memory lasting no more thatn a few tenths of a seconds |
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| a momentary sencory memory of auditory stimuli;if attention is elsewere,sounds and worlds can still be recall whitin 3 or 4 seconds |
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| Long term potentiation(LPT) |
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| an increase in a synapse's firing potentialafter brief rapid extimulation. |
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| a clear memory of an emotionally significant mommnet or event |
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| retention independent of conscious recollection. |
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| memory of facts and expirience that ine can consiously know "declare" |
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| a neural center that is located in the limbic system and helps process explicit memories for storage |
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| a measure of memory in wich the preson must retrive information learned early,as on a fill-in-the-bank test |
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| a memory measure that assesses the amount of times saved when learning material for a second time. |
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| the activation often uncouscioulsy of perticular association in memory |
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| the sisruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of information. |
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| the disruptive effect of new learnign on the recall of old information |
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| a self defence mechnism that lets you forget hurtful memories |
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| the incorporation of missliting information into ones momory of a event |
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| the mental activation associated with thinking ,knowing,remnbering and comunicated |
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| a mental groping of similar objects ,events ,ideas and people. |
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| a sudden and often relization |
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| a tendency to search for information that ones own preconceptions |
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| a simple thinking stralegy that often allows us to make judgment and solve problems effectivily |
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| the inability to see a problem from a new prespective |
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| the tendency to be more confident than correct |
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| clinging to ones initial conceptions after the basis on witch they were form has been discredit |
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| Our spoken ,written or signed and the ways we combine them to comunicate |
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babling stage One-world stage Two world stage |
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| Whorf's hypotesys that says that lenguage determines the way we think |
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| Mental quality consitening in the ability to learn from expiriances ,solve problems and used knowledge to adapt to ne situations |
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| a general intelligence factor that underlines specific mental abilities . |
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| a condition in which a person other wise limited in mental ability has an exectional expecific skill |
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| the ability to percieve,undestant ,manage and use emotions |
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| a method for assesing an individuals mental aptitude and comparing them with those of others using numerical scores |
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| a measure of intealligence based on the average age of the person |
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