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Cognitive Psychology: Cognition & Memory

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show capacity to register, retain, and remember information. Learning that persists over time  
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Multistore Model of Memory   show
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Information Processing Model of Memory   show
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Sensory Memory   show
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show a momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli  
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show a momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli  
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show Working memory, 20 seconds before forgotten; capacity of seven plus or minus two items of information. Place where we keep memories that we are actively working with or small amounts of information, stems from selective attention and maintenence rehearsal  
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Selective Attention   show
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show conscious repetition of information to either maintain information in STM or to encode it for storage  
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Maintenance Rehearsal   show
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show repetition that creates associations between the new memory and existing memories stored in LTM  
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Long-term memory (LTM)   show
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show memory of facts and experiences that one consciously knows and can verbalize  
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semantic memory   show
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show memory of personally experienced events  
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Implicit memory (nondeclarative)   show
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