Question 1

Process by which we recall experiences, information, and skills.

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Memory

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Encoding of meaning.

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Semantic Encoding

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The translation of information into a form for future use.

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encoding

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Stores memories and makes them available for future use.

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storage

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Locates stored information and returns it to conscious thought.

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retrieval

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Repeated repetition of information to help the learning process.

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rehearsal

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The first memory store -- the immediate, initial recording of data.

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sensory memory

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Sometimes called working memory -- when information is stored for 10-12 seconds.

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short-term memory

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Memory stored more than briefly and encoded through rehearsal.

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long-term memory

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Sensory register of mental traces of sound

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echoic memory

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Sensory register of accurate, photographic images (visual).

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iconic memory

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Organization of items into familiar or manageable units.

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chunking

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A sentence or acronym that helps us to memorize a string of words.

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mnemonic devices

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The tendency to recall the first and last items in a list more easily.

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serial position effect

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Retrieval in which you must search for information that you previously stored.

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Recall

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Retrieval in which you must identify items you learned earlier.

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Recognition

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When a more recent memory disrupts the recall of an older memory.

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Retroactive interference

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The process of moving anxiety-producing memories to the unconscious mind. Freud psychoanalytic theory.

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Repression

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Packets of information that we have about previous, similar events that we use when making sense of similar events.

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Schema

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Where the procedure of a study is the same across all conditions.

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Standardised procedure

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The theory of explaining something according to its basic parts.

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Reductionism

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A technique where participants are asked to recall something again and again.

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Serial Reproduction

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The extent to which the results of a study can explain different situations.

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Ecological validity

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When we leave out unfamiliar, irrelevant or unpleasant details when remembering something.

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Omission

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When new long-term memories cannot be made.

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Anterograde Amnesia

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memory operates much like a computer to encode, save and retrieve information

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Information Processing Model

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A temporary storage device for holding sensory memories

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Sensory Register

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Holds images, or icons, that represents all aspects of a visual image

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Visual Register

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Holds echos of sounds

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Auditory Register

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The focus of attention on one particular stimulus or task at the exclusion of other stimuli.

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Selective Attention

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Early-selection model

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Broadbent's Filter Model

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Filters message before incoming information is analyzed for meaning

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suggests that unattended info is not lost but attenuated/ turned down

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Treisman's Attenuation Model

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the ability to focus your hearing on one specific thing even though noise is all around you

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Cocktail Party Effect

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A brain structure that regulates sleep, wakefulness, and levels of arousal.

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Reticular Formation

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Remembering terms that stick out from a list ( are unlike or unique from the other terms)

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Semantic Distinctiveness

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Encoding material in a manner related to how the material will be used later

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Transfer Appropriate Processing

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The act of consciously or intentionally retrieving past experiences

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Explicit Memory

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Memories we don't deliberately remember or reflect on consciously

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Implicit Memory

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The collection of past personal experiences that occurred at a particular time and place

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Episodic Memory

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It refers to memories which can be consciously recalled such as facts and events.

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Declarative Memory

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A network of associated facts and concepts that make up our general knowledge of the world.

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Semantic Memory

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A type of implicit memory that involves motor skills and behavioral habits

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Procedural Memory

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The technique of calling upon your own memories to understand a character's emotions.

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Emotional Memory

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Memory for skills, habits, emotional responses, and some reflexes.

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Non-Declarative Memory

Question 46

When you remember the first couple of things on a list

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The Primary Effect

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Recall better for information at the end of list

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The Recency Effect

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An apparent memory of an event that did not actually happen, unconsciously constructed to fill a gap

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Constructive Memory

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The process by which recent experiences increase the accessibility of a schema, trait, or concept

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Priming

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Recall of the information is better if environment is the same as when the information was learned

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Situational Factors

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Recall information better, if the person is in the same physiological state as when the information was learned

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State-Dependent Memory

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Retrieval depends on how it was encoded

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Encoding Specificy

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The use of multiple pathways to convey information about the same stimulus.

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Parallel Processing

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When you can almost recall something =, but can't quite put your tongue on it

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Tip of the Tongue Phenomenon

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Using individual cases to draw inferences about general information

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Spontaneous Generalization

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proposes that forgetting occurs because memory fades with time

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Decay Theory

Question 57

The amount of overlap that one part has with another when assembled.

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Interference

Question 58

Newly learned material prevents successful retrieval of older memories.

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Retroactive Interference

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old information interferes with new information

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Proactive Interference

Question 60

sentences that are made up of words beginning with the first letters of other words

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Acrostics

Question 61

Forming a mental image of items to be remembered in a way that links them together

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Link Method

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use of familiar locations as cues to recall items that have been associated with them

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Method of Loci

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the ability to remember with great accuracy visual information on the basis of short-term exposure

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Eidetic Memory

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a clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event

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Flashbulb Memory

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