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memory
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the ability to remember the things that we have experienced, imagined, and learned.
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Information-processing Model
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a computerlike model used to describe the way humans encode, store, and retrieve information.
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Sensory Registers
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entry points for raw information from the senses
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Attention
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the selection of some incoming information for further processing
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Short-Term Memory (STM)
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working memory; briefly stores and processes selected information from the sensory registers
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Chunking
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the grouping of information into meaningful units for easier handling by short-term memory.
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Rote Rehearsal
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retaining information in memory simply by repeating it over and over.
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Long-Term Memory (LTM)
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the portion of memory that is more of less permanent, corresponding to everything we know.
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Serial Position Effect
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the finding that when asked to recall a list of unrelated items, performance is better for the items at the beginning and the end of the list.
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Elaborative Rehearsal
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the linking of new information in short-term memory to familiar material stored in long-term memory.
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Episodic Memory-
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the portion of long-term memory that stores personally experienced events
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Semantic Memory
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the portion of long-term memory that stores general facts and information.
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Procedural Memory
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the portions of long-term memory that stores information relating to skills, habits, and other perceptual-motor tasks.
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Emotional Memory
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learned emotional responses to various stimuli
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Explicit Memory
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memory for information that we can readily express in words and are aware of having; these memories can be intentionally retrieved from memory.
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Implicit Memory
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memory for information that we cannot readily express in words and may not be aware of having; these memories cannot be intentionally retrieved from memory.
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Tip-of-the-tongue Phenomenon (TOT)
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knowing a word, but not being able to immediately recall it.
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Decay theory
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a theory that argues that the passage of time causes forgetting
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Retrograde amnesia
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the inability to recall events preceding an accident of injury, but without loss of earlier memory.
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Retroactive interference
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the process by which new information interfers with information already in memory
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Proactive interference
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the process by which information already in memory interfers with new information
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Mnemonics
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techniques that make material easier to remember
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Childhood amnesia
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the difficulty adults have remembering experiences from their first two years of life
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Eidetic imagery
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the ability to reproduce unusually sharp and detailed images of something one has seen
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Mnemonist
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someone with highly developed memory skills
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Flashbulb memory
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a vivid memory of a certain event and the incidents surrounding it even after a long time has passed
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