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subject to primacy and recency effects: first and last items are easiest to remember |
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| Serial anticipation Learning |
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| Instead of recalling an entire list at once, it is done one at a time. |
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| Paired Associate learning |
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| the style of learning used to study foreign languages. |
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| A list of items is learned, and then must be recalled in any order with no cue. |
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| 7 Factors making items on a list easier to retrieve: |
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Acoustic Dissimilarity
Semantic Dissimilarity
Brevity
Familiarity
Concreteness
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Importance to the subject. |
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| Decay Theory (trace theory) |
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| competing information blocks retrieval. |
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| memory cues that help learning and recall |
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| Generation-Recognition Model |
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| suggests that anything one might recall should easily be recognized. |
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| Tip of the Tongue Phenomenon |
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| is being on the verge of retrieval but not successfully doing so. |
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| Retrieval is more successful if it occurs in the same emotional state or physical state in which encoding occurred. |
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| the brain's tendency to group together similar items in memory whether they are learned together or not. |
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| recollections that seem burned into the brain, such as "what is your memory of the world trade center collapsing?" |
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| an instrument often used in cognitive or memory experiments. It presents visual material to subjects for a fraction of a second. |
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| the tendency to recall uncompleted tasks better than completed ones. |
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