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Refers to the mental process that enables us to acquire retain and receive information
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What is memory
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Involves recovering the stored information so that we are consciously aware of it
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Retrieval
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Information or knowledge that affects behavior or task performance but cannot be consciously recollected; also called non-declarative memory
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Implicit memory
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Information or knowledge that can't be consciously recollected; also called declarative memory
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Explicit memory
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a memory phenomenon that involves a sensation of knowing the specific information is stored in long-term memory but being temporarily unable to retrieve it
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Tip of the tongue experience TOT
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What German psychologist begin to the scientific study of forgetting in 1870
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Ebbinghaus, Herman
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relatively rapid loss of some information followed by stable memories of the remaining information
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Ebbinghaus forgetting curve
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The view that forgetting is due to normal metabolic process that occurs in the brain over time
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decay theory
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A memory distorted phenomenon in which a person's existing memories can be altered if the persons is exposed to misleading information
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Misinformation effect
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Loss of memory especially for episodic information backward acting amnesia
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Retrograde amnesia
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Loss of memory caused by the inability to store new memories; forward acting
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Antro-grade amnesia
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H m had what removed?
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Hippocampus
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Encodes and transfers new explicit memories to long term memory
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Hippocampus
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Category of long term memory that includes memories of general knowledge concepts, facts and names
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Semantic memory
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The stage of memory that registers information from the environment and holds it for a very brief time.
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Sensory memory
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