Chap 8

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Recognition

Back 1

Identifying items previously learned. A multiple choice question tests your recognition

Front 2

Relearning

Back 2

Learning something more quickly when you learn it a second or later time.

Front 3

Encoding

Back 3

The process of getting information into our brain

Front 4

Storage

Back 4

Retaining the information previously encoded in our brains

Front 5

Sensory memory

Back 5

The immediate, very brief recording of sensory info in the memory system.

Front 6

Short term memory

Back 6

Memory that holds a few items briefly such as remembering a phone number

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Long term memory

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Memory stored for later retrieval, knowledge, skills, and experiences.

Front 8

Working memory

Back 8

Newer understanding of short term memory that focuses on conscious new information

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Explicit memory

Back 9

Facts and experiences one can consciously know and declare

Front 10

Effortful processing

Back 10

Encoding that requires attention and conscious effort. Like this

Front 11

Automatic processing

Back 11

Encoding of incedental information that is unconscious

Front 12

Implicit memory

Back 12

Retention independant of conscious recollection.

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Iconic memory

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Momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli. Sperling's experiment when he flashes the letters very fast.

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Echoic memory

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A momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli; teacher asking "what did i just say?" And you will be able to recall.

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Chunking

Back 15

Organizing items into familiar, managable units, often occurs automatically.

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Mnemonics

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Memory aids, especially those techniques that use vivid imagery and organizational devices. Think bun, shoe, tree, door, hive

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Spacing effect

Back 17

The tendency for distributed study or practice to yield better long-term retention than is achieved through masses study or practice.

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Testing effect

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Enhanced memory after retrieving, rather than simply reading the information.

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Shallow processing

Back 19

Encoding on a basic level based on the structure or appearance of words.

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Deep processing

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Encoding information based on the meaning of the word, yields best retention.

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Hippocampus

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Neural center located in the limbic system, helping process explicit memories for storage.

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Flashbulb Memory

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A clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event.

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Long term potentiation (LTP)

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An increase in a cells firing potential after brief, rapid stimutation. Neural basis for learning and memory.

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Priming

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The activation, often unconsciously, of particular associations in memory.

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Mood-congruent memory

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The tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with ones current good or bad mood. (If ur mad now and u remember the last time you were mad)

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Serial position effect

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The tendency to recall best the last and first items in a list.

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Anterograde Amnesia (N)

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Inability to form new memories

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Retrograde Amnesia

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An inability to retrieve info from ones past.

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Proactive Inference

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The disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information.

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Retroactive Inference

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The disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information.

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Misinformation Effect

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Incorporating misleading information into one's memory of an event

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Source Amnesia

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Attributing to the wrong source an event we have experienced heard about, read about, or imagined.