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Psy 100 - OSU - Memory

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memory   retention of information over time  
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suggestive memory techniques   procedures that encourage patients to recall memories that may or may not have taken place  
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memory illusion   false but subjectively compelling memory  
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span   how much information a memory system can contain  
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duration   legnth of time for which a memory system can retain information  
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sensory memory   breif storage of perceptual information before it is passed to short term memory  
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iconic memory   visual sensory memory  
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echoic memory   auditory sensory memory  
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short-term memory   memory system that retains information for limited durations  
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decay   fading of information from memory  
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interference   loss of information from memory because of competition from additional incoming information  
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retroactive inhibition   interference with retention of old information due to acquisition of new information  
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proactive inhibition   interference with acquisition of new information due to previous learning of information  
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Magic Number   the span of short-term memory, according to George Miller: seven plus or minus two pieces of information  
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chunking   organizing information into meaningful groupings, allowing us to extend the span of short-term memory  
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rehersal   repeating information to extend the duration of retention in short term memory  
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maintenance rehersal   repeating stimuli in their original form to retain them in short term memory  
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elaborative rehersal   linking stimuli to each other in a meaningful way to improve retention of information in short-term memory  
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levels of processing   depth of transforming information, which influences how easily we remember it  
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long-term memory   sustained (from minutes to years) retention of information stored regarding our facts, experiences, and skills  
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permastore   type of long term memory that appears to be permanent  
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primacy effect   tendency to remember words at the beginning of a list especially well  
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recency effect   tendency to remember at the end of a list especially well  
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von Restorff effect   tendency to remember distinctive stimuli better than less distinctive stimuli  
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serial position curve   graph depicting the effect of both primacy and recency on people's ability to recall items on a list  
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semantic memory   our knowledge of facts about the world  
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episodic memory   recollection of events in our lives  
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explicit memory   memories we recall intentionally and of which we have conscious awareness  
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implicit memory   memories we don't deliberately remember or reflect on consciously  
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procedural memory   memory for how to do things, including motor skills and habits  
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priming   our ability to identify a stimulus more easily after we've encountered similar stimuli  
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encoding   process of getting information into our memory banks  
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mnemonic   a learning aid, strategy, or device that enhances recall  
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storage   process of keeping information in memory  
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schema   organized knowledge structure or mental model that we've stored in memory  
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retrieval   reactivation or reconstruction of experiences from our memory stores  
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retrieval clues   hints that make it easier for us to recall information  
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recall   generating previously remembered information from an array of options  
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relearning   reacquiring knowledge that we'd previously learned but largely forgotten over time  
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distributed versus massed practice   studying information in small increments over time (distributed) versus in large incriments over a breif period of time (massed)  
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tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) phenomenon   experience of knowing that we know something but being unable to access it  
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encoding specificity   phenomenon of remembering something better when the conditions under which we retrieve information are similar to the conditions under which we encoded it  
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context-dependent learning   superior retrieval of memories when the external context of the original memories matches the retrieval context  
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state-dependent learning   superior retrieval of memories when the organism is in the same psyological or psychological state as during encoding  
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long-term potentiation (LTP)   gradual stregnthening of the connections among neurons from repetetive stimulation  
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retrograde amnesia   loss of memories from our past  
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anterograde amnesia   inability to encode new memories from our experiences  
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flashbulb memories   emotional memories that are extraordinarily vivid and detailed  
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source monitoring   ability to identify the origins of a memory  
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cryptomnesia   failure to recognise that our ideas originated with someone else  
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misinformation effect   creation of ficticious memories by providing misleading information about an event after it takes place  
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