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Unit 5- Memory
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Absentmindedness | Information is never properly encoded, never becomes part of long-term memory. |
| Acoustic Encoding | Encoding of sound, especially the sound of words. |
| Anterograde Amnesia | Inability to recall information AFTER a physical trauma; Problems converting short-term memory to long-term memory |
| Arousal Theory | People are driven to perform actions in order to maintain an optimal level of physical arousal. |
| Atkinson-Shiffrin Model | Stimuli held in sensory memory- some passes to short term memory encoded with rehearsal- information moves to long-term memory. |
| Automatic Processing | Unconscious encoding of information that occurs without thought. |
| Availability Heuristic | Basing decisions on examples and information that immediately springs to mind. |
| Belief Bias | Tendency to judge strength of arguments based on plausibility of conclusion rather than support of it. |
| Chunking | Organizing all data into manageable units. |
| Confirmation Bias | Tendency to interpret new evidence as confirmation of one's existing beliefs or theories. |
| Effortful Processing | Encoding that requires our attention and conscious effort. |
| Encoding | The information gets into our brains in a way that allows it to be stored. |
| Episodic Memory | |
| Equipoteniality Hypothesis | |
| Explicit Memory | |
| False Memory | |
| Flashbulb Memory | |
| Functional Fixedness | |
| Implicit Memory | |
| Language Acquisition | |
| Levels of Processing | |
| Linguistic Relativity | |
| Long-Term Memory | |
| Long-Term Potentiation | |
| Memory | |
| Misattribution Error | |
| Misinformation Effect Paradigm | |
| Mnemonic Devices | |
| Mood-Congruent Memory | |
| Morphemes | |
| Overgeneralization | |
| Persistence | |
| Phonemes | |
| Primacy Effect | |
| Proactive Interference | |
| Procedural Memory | |
| Prototypes | |
| Recall | |
| Recency Effect | |
| Recognition | |
| Rehearsal | |
| Relearning Effect | |
| Representativeness Heuristic | |
| Repression | |
| Retrieval | |
| Retroactive Interference | |
| Retrograde Amnesia | |
| Selective Attention | |
| Self-Reference Effect | |
| Semantic Encoding | |
| Semantic Memory | |
| Sensory Memory | |
| Serial Position Effect | |
| Short-Term Memory | |
| State-Dependent Memory | |
| Storage | |
| Suggestibility | |
| Syntax | |
| Visual Encoding | |
| Working Memory |
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