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15 Cards in this Set
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Afterimage
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A visual image that persists after a stimulus is removed.
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Amnesia
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A significant memory loss that is too extensive to be due to normal forgetting. See also Anterograde amnesia, Retrograde amnesia.
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Anterograde amnesia
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Loss of memories for events that occur after a head injury.
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Attention
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Loss of memories for events that occur after a head injury.
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Chunk
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Focusing awareness on a narrowed range of stimuli or events.
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Clustering
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A group of familiar stimuli stored as a single unit.
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Cognition
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The tendency to remember similar or related items in groups.
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Conceptual hierarchy
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The mental processes involved in acquiring knowledge.
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Connectionist models
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A multilevel classification system based on common properties among items.
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Consolidation
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See parallel distributed processing (PDP) models.
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Decay theory
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A hypothetical process involving the gradual conversion of information into durable memory codes stored in long-term memory.
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Declarative memory system
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The idea that forgetting occurs because memory traces fade with time.
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Dual-coding theory
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Paivio's theory that memory is enhanced by forming semantic and visual codes, since either can lead to recall.
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Elaboration
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Linking a stimulus to other information at the time of encoding.
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Electrical stimulation of the brain (ESB)
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Sending a weak electric current into a brain structure to stimulate (activate) it.
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