Ch. 6 Attention And Memory

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Autobiographical Memory

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Remembering information and events from your own life.

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Automatic Processing

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Processes that are fast, reliable, and insensitive to increased cognitive demand.

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Cognitive Reserve

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Factors that provide flexibility in responding and adapting to changes in the environment.

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Divided Attention

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The ability to pay attention and successfully perform more than one task at a time.

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Effortful Processing

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It requires all of the available attention capacity when processing information.

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Encoding

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The process of getting information into the memory system.

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Episodic Memory

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The general class of memory having to do with the conscious recollection or information from a specific event or point in time.

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Explicit Memory

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The conscious and intentional recollection of memory.

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External Aids

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Memory aids that rely on environmental resources.

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False Memory

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When one remembers items or events that did not occur.

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Flashbulb Memories

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Memories for personally traumatic or unexpected events.

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Implicit Memory

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The effortless and unconscious recollection of information.

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Information-Processing Model

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The study of how people take in stimuli from their environment and transform them into memories; the approach is based on a computer metaphor.

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Internal Aids

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Memory aids that rely on mental processes.

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Long Term Memory

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The aspects of memory involved in remembering rather extensive amounts of information over relatively long periods of time.

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Memory Monitoring

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The awareness of what we are doing in memory right now.

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Metamemory

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Memory about how memory works and what one believes to be true about it.

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Processing Resources

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The amount of attention one has to apply to a particular situation.

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Prospective Memory

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Process involving remembering to remember something in the future.

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Recall

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Process of remembering information without the help of hints or cues.

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Recognition

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Process of remembering information by selecting previously learned information from among several items.

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Rehearsal

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Process by which information is held in working memory, either by repeating items over and over or by making meaningful connections between the information in working memory and information.

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Retrieval

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The process of getting information back out of memory.

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Semantic Memory

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Learning and remembering the meaning of words and concepts that are not tied to specific occurrences of events in time.

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Memory Self-Efficacy

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The belief in one's ability to perform a specific memory task.

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Sensory Memory

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A very brief and almost identical representation of the stimuli that exists in the observable environment.

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Source Memory

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The ability to remember the source of a familiar event as well as the ability to determine if an event was imagined or actually experienced.

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Speed of Processing

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How quickly and efficiently the early steps in information processing are completed.

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Storage

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The manner in which information is represented and kept in memory.

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Strategies

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Various techniques that make learning or remembering easier and that increase the efficiency of storage.

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Temporary Global Amnesia or TGA

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Temporary experience of a complete memory loss and disorientation of time.

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Working Memory

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Refers to the process and structures involved in holding information in mind and simultaneously using that information, sometimes in conjunction with incoming information, to solve a problem, make a decision, or learn new information.