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| Retention of information or experience over time as the result of three key processes: encoding, storage, and retrieval. |
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| First step in memory: process by which information gets into memory storage |
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| Concentrating on more than one activity at the same time |
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| Vigilance. The ability to maintain attention to a selected stimulus for a prolonged period of time |
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| Continuum of memory processing from shallow to intermediate to deep, deeper processing producing better memory |
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| Formation of a number of different connections around a stimulus at a given level of memory encoding |
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| Retention of information over time and how this info is represented in memory |
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| Theory stating that memory storage involves three separate systems: sensory memory, short term memory and long term memory |
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| Memory system that involves holding info from the world in its original sensory form for only an instant, not much longer than the brief time it is exposed to the visual auditory and other sense |
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| Limited capacity memory system in which info is usually retained for only as long as 30 sec. unless we use strategies to retain it longer |
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| Three part system that allows us to hold info temporarily as we perform cognitive tasks. Mental workbench on which the brain manipulates and assembles info to help us understand make decisions and solve problems |
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| briefly stores speech based info about language |
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| Visuospatial working memory |
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| Stores visual and spatial info including visual imagery |
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| Integrates info not only from the phonological loop and visuospatial working memory but also from long term memory |
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| Relatively permanent type of memory that stores huge amounts of info for a long time |
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| AKA Declarative. The conscious recollection of info such as specific facts or events and at leas in humans info that can be verbally communicated |
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| Retention of info about the where when and what of life's happenings that is how we remember life's episodes |
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| Person's knowledge about the world including his or her areas of expertise, general knowledge such as of things learned in school and everyday knowledge |
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| AKA Nondeclarative. Memory in which behavior is affected by prior experience without a conscious recollection of that experience |
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| Activation of info that people already have in storage to help them remember new info better and faster |
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| Pre existing mental concept that helps people to organize and interpret info. |
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| A schema for an event often containing info about physical features people and typical occurrences |
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| The theory that memory is stored throughout the brain in connections among neurons, several of which may work together a single memory |
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| Memory process that occurs when info that was retained in memory comes out of storage. |
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| Tendency to recall the items at the beginning and end of a list more readily than those in the middle |
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| A special form of episodic memory, consisting of a person's recollections of his or her life experiences |
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| The memory of emotionally significant events that people often recall with more accuracy and vivid imagery than everyday events |
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| Forgetting that occurs when something is so painful or anxiety laden that remembering it is intolerable |
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| Theory that people forget not because memories are lost from storage but because other info gets in the way! |
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| Situation in which material that was learned earlier disrupts the recall of material that was learned later |
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| Situation in which material that was learned later disrupts the retrieval of info that was learned earlier |
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| Theory Stating that when we learn something new a memory trace forms. Over time the trace disintegrates increasing forgetting |
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| Remembering info from the past |
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| Remembering info about doing something in the future including memory for intentions |
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| A memory disorder that affects the retention of new info and events |
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| Memory loss for a segment of the past but not for new events |
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