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27 Cards in this Set
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Schema |
The general body of knowledge one possesses about a topic. |
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Misinformation Effect |
Subjects are more likely to remember incorrect information provided than what actually occurred. |
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Recovered Memory |
Recollection of a past event that has been unavailable for a long period of time. |
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Imagination Inflation |
Imagining an event increases a person's belief that the event happened. |
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Sensory Memory |
Holds onto information received by the senses for brief periods of time. |
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Short-Term Memory |
Used to hold information briefly that has been identified so that it can be acted on or copied to a more permanent memory system. |
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Long-Term Memory |
Storehouse of facts, concepts, experiences, and skills. |
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Pattern Recognition |
The identification of stimuli in the environment. |
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Iconic Memory |
Sensory memory system for vision. |
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Echoic Memory |
Sensory memory system for auditory information. |
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Rehearsal |
The mechanism of repeating information to maintain it in short-term memory. |
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Memory Span Task |
A task designed to determine the capacity of short-term memory. |
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Chunking |
Grouping of individual items into a larger single unit. |
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Tip-of-the-Tongue State |
Person is confident he or she knows a word or name but cannot, at present, recall it. |
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Primacy Effect |
Increased memory for the first information in a series. |
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Recency Effect |
Increased memory for the last information in a series. |
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Declarative Memory |
"Knowing that." |
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Procedural Memory |
"Knowing how." |
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Explicit Measures of Memory |
Involves situations in which the memory task involves a direct reference to a particular past experience. |
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Implicit Measures of Memory |
Memories are demonstrated with no mention of the experiences that led to that memory. |
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Retrograde Amesia |
Difficulty remembering information from before the memory problem development. |
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Anterograde Amnesia |
Difficulty learning and remembering new information. |
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Levels-of-Processing |
Memory for information is an automatic product of the processing that occurs when information is received. |
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Maintenance Rehearsal |
Repeating the information without additional processing. |
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Elaborative Rehearsal |
Adding meaning to the information in some way. |
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Mnemonic |
A memory aid. |
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Metamemory |
The knowledge one has about one's own memory. |
