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30 Cards in this Set
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Memory |
The mental functions and processes by which info is encoded, stored and retrieved. |
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Episodic Memory |
Memory of specific experienced events |
Your first day of college semantin |
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Semantic memory |
Memory of general knowledge information |
knowing the name of a color |
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Explicit Memory |
Memory of specific information |
naming a rainforest animal |
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Implicit memory |
Memory of which you are not aware. Generally skills and processes learned. |
Typing or singing a familiar song |
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Storage |
The maintenance of encoded info over time |
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Encoding |
Translation of info to a form that can be stored in memory |
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Maintenance rehearsal |
Repetition of new info in attempt to remember it |
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Elaborative rehearsal |
Methods for remembering new info by linking it to info you already know. |
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Retrieval |
The process of recalling info |
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Context dependent memories |
Info that is more easily retrieved in the context or situation it was coded and stored |
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State dependent memory |
Info that's easier to remember when in the same emotional state when the memory was encoded. |
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Sensory memory |
The immediate initial recording of sensory info in the memory |
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Iconic memory |
The sensory register that briefly holds mental images of visual stimuli |
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Eidetic imagery |
Maintenance of a very detailed visual memory over a long period of time |
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Echoic memory |
Sensory register that briefly holds aural stimuli |
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Short-term memory |
(Working memory) memory that holds info briefly before it's stored or forgotten. |
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Primacy effect |
Tendency to recall initial items in a series |
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Recency effect |
Tendency to recall last item in a series |
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Chunking |
Mental process of organizing info into meaningful units |
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Interference |
The process that occurs when new info in short-term pushes and replaces what was already there. |
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Long term memory |
The type of memory capable of large and permanent storage |
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Schemas |
An idea that helps organize and interpret info |
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Recognition |
Identifies objects or events that have been previously encountered |
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Recall |
Non-immediate retrieval of learned info |
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Relearning |
Learning a second time |
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Decay |
Disintegration; fading Of a memory overtime |
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Retrograde amnesia |
The failure to remember events that occurred prior to physical trauma |
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Anterograde amnesia |
Inability to form new memories because of brain trauma |
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Infantile amnesia |
Inability to remember events that occurred during ones early years |
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