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Psych Unit 6A Vocab

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Definition
show Learning that persists over time  
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show Retrieving information  
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show Identifying previously learned items  
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Encoding   show
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show Retain information  
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Retrieval   show
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Three-stage memory model/multi-store model   show
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Sensory memory   show
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show The recall of material after it is presented or during uninterrupted rehearsal of the material  
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show Straight repeating of information to memorize it  
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Elaborative rehearsal   show
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show Memory that involves the storage and recall of information over a long period of time  
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show Active processing of sensory and long-term memories during short-term memory  
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Central executive   show
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Visuospatial sketchpad   show
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Phonological loop   show
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Explicit/declarative memories   show
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show Encoding that requires attention and conscious effort  
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Implicit/nondeclarative memories   show
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Procedural memories   show
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show Unconscious encoding of incidental information  
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Prospective memory   show
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show Recollection of past events a jawn has experienced  
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show A fleeting sensory memory of visual stimuli  
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Echoic memory   show
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Chunking   show
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Mnemonics   show
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Method of Loci   show
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Categories   show
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Hierarchies   show
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show The tendency for distributed practice to yield better long-term retention than massed practice  
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Testing effect   show
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Metacognition   show
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show Encoding on an elementary level  
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show Use of sounds to process language  
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Structural processing   show
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Deep processing/semantic processing   show
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show Memory of facts and general knowledge  
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Episodic memory   show
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show The process of turning short-term memories to long-term ones  
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Long-term potentiation   show
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show Stimuli assisting in memory retrieval  
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Priming   show
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Context-dependent memory   show
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show Needing a certain state for memory  
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show Recalling experiences consistently with mood  
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Serial position effect   show
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show Recalling jawns better because of recency  
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show Recalling jawns better because of their proximity to the beginning of something  
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Anterograde amnesia   show
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Retrograde amnesia   show
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show A disease where loss of memory is a main symptom  
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show Inability of adults to recollect early episodic memories  
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show Occurs when information is insufficiently or inadequately encoded  
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Ebbinghaus forgetting curve   show
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show When one can't recall a word but can recall words of similar form and meaning  
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show When old information interferes with the learning of new information  
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show When new information inhibits our ability to recall old information  
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Ego   show
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show Unconscious blocking of unpleasant jawns from one's mind  
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Misinformation effect   show
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show A tendency to falsely remember jawns that were imagined  
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Source amnesia   show
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