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11 Cards in this Set
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Priming
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the activation, often unconsciously of particular associations in the memory
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Mood congruent memory
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the tendency to recall memories if we are in the same mood we were when we formed them.
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serial position effect
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our tendency to best remember the things that are first and last in a list and forget the things that are in the middle
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Anterograde Amnesia
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an inability to form new memories but being able to recall the past.
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retrograde amnesia
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the inability to recall information from one's past
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proactive interference
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what happens when prior learning interupts the recall of new information
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retroactive interference
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what happens when the learning of new information interrupts the recall of old information
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Repression
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Freud's belief that we push down painful or unwanted memories, we banish anxiety arousing thoughts or painful memories from our conscious and into our subconscious
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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 the wrong source to an event we have experienced, heard about or read about or imagined, it is the source of many wrong memories.
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deja vu
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the feeling of "I've experienced this before." cues from the current situation may subconsciously trigger retrieval of an earlier experience.
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