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22 Cards in this Set
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Memory |
The storage and retrieval of what has been learned or experienced |
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Encoding |
Places or storing information such as images, events, or sounds in memory bu making mental representations so the nervous system can process it |
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Storage |
The process of placing encoded information into relatively permanent mental storage for later recall |
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Retrieval |
The process of obtaining information that has been sotred in memory |
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Sensory Memory |
Very brief memory storage immideiately following intial stimulation of a receptor |
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Short-Term Memory |
Memory that is limited in capacity to about seven items for a short period of time |
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Maintenance Rehearsal |
A system for remembering that involves repeating information to oneself without attempting to find meaning in it |
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Chunking |
Combining seperate items of information into a larger unit, or chunk, and then remembering chunks of information rather than an individual item |
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Semantic Memory |
A type of declarative memory consisting of factual knowledge of language, including its rules, words, and meanings |
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Episodic Memory |
A memory of a specific experienced event in one's life, including time of occurrence |
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Declarative Memory |
Memory of facts or events such as scenes, stories, words, conversations, daces, or daily events that can be called forth consciously as needed |
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Procedural Memory |
Memory of learned skills and procedures that does not require conscious recollection |
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Recognition |
The type of memory retrival in which a person is required to identify an object, idea, or situation as one he or she has or has not experienced before |
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Recall |
The type of memory retrieval in which a person reconstructs previously learned material without the aid of or with very few external cues |
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Reconstructive Process |
The alteration of a recalled memory that may be simplified, enriched, or distorted, depending on an individual's experiences, attitudes, or inferences |
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Confabulation |
The act of filling in memory with statements that make sense but that may be untrue |
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Schema |
An idea or mental framework a person uses to organize and interpret information and make sense of the world |
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Eidetic Memory |
The ability to remember with great accuracy visual information on the basis of short-term exposure |
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Decay |
Fading away of memory over time |
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Interference |
The process that occurs when new information appears in short-term memory and replaces what was already there |
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Elaborative Rehearsal |
A memory device that creates a meaningful link between new information and material that is already known |
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Mnemonic Devices |
Techniques of memorizing information by forming vivid associations or images, which facilitate recall and decrease forgetting |
