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15 Cards in this Set
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Sensory Registers
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Brain filters through which sensory info. enters the brain and is sent to short term memory.
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Short-term Memory
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The brains temporary infor. storehouse in which info. remains for a few seconds.
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Long-term Memory
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The brains permanent info. storehouse from which info. can be retrieved.
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Chunking
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Placing disconnected info. into smaller units that are easier to remember.
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Mnemonic Devices
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Memory techniques that use vivid associations and acronyms to link new info. to what you alread kow.
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Acronym
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A word formed from the first letters of a series of words created to help you remember the series.
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Repetition can reinforce what?
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Memory.
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Procedural Memory
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This area stores info. about procedures, or, in other words, how to do things.
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Declarative Memory
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Memories of facts, concepts, formulas, etc.
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Episodic Memory
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Memories of events linked to personal experiences are stored here.
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List three ways to help you limit and organize the items you are processing.
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Separate main points from unimportant details. Divide material into manageable sections. Use organizational tools.
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List three processes that actively involve you in learning and remembering material.
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Recite, Rehearse, and Write.
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Using what strategy can help you remember items on a list?
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Mental walk strategy
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List the 4 steps to creating a vocabulary cartoon.
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Write down the new vocabulary word followed by its pronunciation and definition. Think of a link word or association. Create a picture or simple cartoon with the main word and the link word, to serve as a visual mnemonic. Use the word in sentences of your own.
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What do you call other acronyms that take the form of an entire sentence, in which the first letter of each word in each sentence stands for the first letter of the memorized term?
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List order acronym.
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