Myers 7th Edition - Chapter 09 Vocabulary
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| show | A clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event
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| show | The processing of information into the memory system - for example, by extracting meaning.
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| Storage | show 🗑
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| show | The process of getting information out of memory storage.
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| Sensory Memory | show 🗑
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| show | Activated memory that holds a few items briefly, such as the seven digits of a phone number while dialing, before the information is stored or forgotten. Working memory is a similar concept that focuses more on the processing of briefly stored information
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| show | The relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system.
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| Automatic Processing | show 🗑
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| show | Encoding that requires attention and conscious effort.
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| show | The conscious repetition of information, either to maintain it in consciousness or to encode it for storage.
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| show | The tendency for distributed study or practice to yield better long-term retention than is achieved through massed study or practice.
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| Serial Position Effect | show 🗑
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| Visual Encoding | show 🗑
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| Acoustic Encoding | show 🗑
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| Semantic Encoding | show 🗑
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| Imagery | show 🗑
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| Mnemonics | show 🗑
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| Chunking | show 🗑
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| show | A momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli; a photographic or picture-image memory lasting no longer than a few tenths of a second.
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| show | A momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli; if attention is elsewhere, sounds and words can stilled be recalled within 3 or 4 seconds.
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| Long-term Potentiation | show 🗑
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| show | The loss of memory.
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| show | Retention independant of conscious recollection. Also called "Procedural Memory".
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| Explicit Memory | show 🗑
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| Hippocampus | show 🗑
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| Recall | show 🗑
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| show | A measure of memory in which the person need only to indentify items previously learned, as on a multiple-choice test.
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| Relearning | show 🗑
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| Priming | show 🗑
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| show | That eerie sense that "I've experienced this before." Cues from the current situation may subconsciously trigger retrieval of an earlier experience.
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| show | The tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with one's current good or bad mood.
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| Proactive Interference | show 🗑
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| show | In psychoanalytic thoery, the basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories.
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| show | Incorporating misleading information into one's memory of an event.
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| show | Attributing to the wrong source an event that we have experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined. (Also called "Source Misattribution.") Source amensia, along with the misinformation effect, is at the heart of many false memories.
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