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| Acoustic codes | the process of remembering and comprehending something that you hear(repetition of words or putting information into a song or rhythm)
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| Amnesia | is a deficit in memory caused by brain damage, drug use, disease, or psychological trauma
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| Amygdala | responsible for emotions, survival instincts, and memory
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| Anterograde Amnesia | prevents memory from being formed after event
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| Chunking | grouping info
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| Confabulation | brain makes up info to fill gaps
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| Decay | fading of memories
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| Declarative Memory | memories that can be consciously retrieved
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| Distributed Practice | strategy of learning that makes use of smaller increments of study and practice over a longer period of time
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| Echoic Memory | retrieving info from what you hear, 1-2 secs
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| Eidetic Memory | recall visual info after seeing it for a short time
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| Elaborative Rehearsal | linking new info to something you already know
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| Elizabeth Loftus | famous memory researcher who specializes in creating false memories
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| Encoding | the learning of info from our environment
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| Episodic Memory | memory of events in our life
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| Flashbulb Memory | vivid memories of first time hearing shocking event
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| George Miller | had theories on STM
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| H.M. | patient who got hippocampus removed to stop seizures, can’t store new info
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| Hippocampus | part of brain associated with memory
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| Iconic Memory | retrieving info visually, less than 1 sec
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| Infant Amnesia | refers to the difficulty or inability that adults have in remembering detailed or episodic memories from early childhood, generally prior to age 3 or 4
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| Interference | new memory blocks or erases existing memory
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| Long-Term Memory | memory can last a lifetime
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| Maintenance Rehearsal | repeating info
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| Mnemonic device | tool used to make associations and improve memory
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| Primacy | remember info best from beginning
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| Procedural Memory | memory of skills
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| Prosopagnosia | disorder of not being able to recognize faces
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| Recall | trying to remember info off the top of your head(ex.essay tests)
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| Recency | remember info best from the ned
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| Recognition | identifying if a piece of info is familiar(ex.multiple choice tests)
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| Reconstructive Memory | we construct memories based on what we already know
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| Relearning | way of measuring retention by measuring how much faster one relearns material that has been previously learned and then forgotten
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| Repression | pushing memories deep inside the mind
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| Retrieval | calling up stored information so that it can be used
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| Retrograde Amnesia | loss of memories before event
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| Semantic codes | meaning of something
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| Semantic memory | memory of facts as language
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| Short-Term Memory | can hold 5-9 pieces of info, less than 30 secs
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| State-Dependent Learning | remember information better if we are in the same physical or emotional condition
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| Storage | holding info over time
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| Stratium | voluntary movement
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| Tachistoscope | an apparatus for use in exposing visual stimuli, as pictures, letters, or words, for an extremely brief period, used chiefly to assess visual perception or to increase reading speed.
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| Visual Codes | process of encoding images and visual sensory information
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| Working Memory | a system for temporarily storing and managing the information required to carry out complex cognitive tasks such as learning, reasoning, and comprehension.
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