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Psychology Ch.7

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visual sensory memory - last for a second and are then gone forever   show
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show magic number  
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organizing information into meaningful groupings, allowing us to extend the span of short-term memory   show
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repeating information to extend the duration of retention in short-term memory   show
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repeating stimuli in their original form to retain them in short-term memory (repeating a phone number)   show
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linking stimuli to each other in meaningful ways to improve retention of information in short-term memory   show
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show semantic memory  
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show priming  
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organized knowledge structure or mental model that we've stored in memory   show
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show retrival  
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phenomenon of remembering something better when the conditions under which we retrieve information are similar to the conditions under which we encoded it   show
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show context dependent learning  
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superior retrieval of memories when the organism is in the same physiological of psychological state as it was during encoding (alcoholics who say they need to get drunk to remember where they put something)   show
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show retrospective bias  
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knowledge about our memory abilities and limitations   show
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show infantile amnesia  
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show flashbulb memories  
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show phantom flashbulb memory  
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lack of clarity about the origin of a memory (remembering a phrase but not who said it)   show
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show cryptomnesia  
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procedure that encourages patients to recall memories that may or may not have taken place   show
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show memory recovery therapists  
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show suggestibility, misattribution, bias, transience, persistence, blocking, absentmindedness  
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show Paradox of Memory  
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show Hyperthymestic Syndrome  
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Task to calculate dates in the past or future, assessing memory or cognitive function.   show
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The number of items that can be remembered and recalled at once.   show
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How long information can be retained in memory.   show
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show Paired-associate task  
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Encoding based on appearance, leading to shallow memory.   show
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Encoding based on sound, leading to intermediate memory.   show
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show levels of processing (Semantic)  
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People remember the beginning (primacy) and end (recency) of a list better than the middle.   show
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show Next-in-line effect  
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The physical memory trace in the brain.   show
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show Weapon focus effect  
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A false memory created by misleading information or suggestions.   show
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Mental framework for understanding sequences of events (e.g., dining at a restaurant).   show
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Clive Wearing Henry Molaison (“H.M.”)   show
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show Assemblies  
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A drug that reduces emotional intensity of memories, used in PTSD treatment.   show
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show Dementia  
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Progressive disorder causing memory loss and confusion due to brain changes.   show
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A therapeutic technique using mental images to aid relaxation or recovery.   show
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show Imagination inflation  
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Memory distortion caused by exposure to incorrect information.   show
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show Long-term potentiation  
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A neurotransmitter involved in memory and learning processes.   show
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show Mnemonic  
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show Pegword method  
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memory technique where you mentally place information along a familiar path or location (like walking through your house), associating each item with a specific location to help recall them later.   show
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Involves linking a foreign word to a familiar word (the keyword) that sounds similar, and then creating a visual image that connects the meaning of the foreign word to the keyword.   show
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show Music as a mnemonic  
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