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Learning that has been persisted over time, stored, and can be retrieved later   Memory  
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Focuses on conscious, active processing lasting 20-30 seconds max with a 7 +/- 2 capacity   Working/Short Term Memory  
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Giving information meaning and moving it into the brain   Encoding  
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Doing multiple activities at once   Parallel processing  
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Memory for auditory stimuli   Echoic Memory  
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Memory for photographs / visual stimuli   Iconic Memory  
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Immediate, very brief recording of sensory information into the memory process   Sensory Memory  
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Capacity and duration of sensory memory   Unlimited / 3 seconds maximum  
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Process of bringing back info out of memory stages   Retrieval  
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Retaining information   Storage  
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Idea the memories emerge from interconnected neural networks and activation patterns   Connectionism  
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Developed theory for how we memorize and the Stage Model of Memory   R. Atkinson and R. Shiffrin  
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What are the stages of the information processing system   Encoding, storage, and retrieval  
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Focuses on the amount of times something has happened (Type of automatic processing)   Frequency  
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Focuses on location (Type of automatic processing)   Space  
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Processing knowledge (Type of automatic processing)   Well Learned Info  
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Focuses on the sequence of events (Type of automatic processing)   Time  
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Permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system (Knowledge, Skills, and Experiences)   Long Term Memory  
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Capacity and Duration of Long Term Memory   Unlimited / Limitless  
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Developed Magic 7 +/- 2 rule for Working/ Short Term Memory   George Miller  
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Developed ideas for Sensory Memory   George Sperling  
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What things are necessary for moving sensory memory into working or short memory   Motivation and Attention  
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Repeating or creating a mental map in order to memorize something (phonological loop)   Maintenance Rehearsal  
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Developed the idea of the phonological loop   Alan Baddeley  
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Parts of the brain responsible for explicit memories   Hippocampus and Temporal Lobes  
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Part of the brain responsible for motor or procedural skills (Breathing, blinking, walking)   Basil Ganglia  
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Parts of the brain responsible for automatic processes   Cerebellum  
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Memories of Life events   Episodic  
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Part of the brain responsible for emotions and emotional conditioning   Amygdala  
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Memories that require effort full processes (Conscious)   Explicit  
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Memories of automatic processes (Unconscious)   Implicit  
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Encoding of meaning   Semantic  
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Tendency to recall the first and last items on a list   Serial Position Effect  
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Developed the Forgetting Curve   Hermann Ebbinghaus  
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Idea that testing improves learning   Testing Effect  
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Developed the Testing Effect   Henry Roediger and Jeffrey Karpicke  
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Recalling the first items on a list   Primacy Effect  
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Recalling the last items on a list   Recency Effect  
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Mental pictures that aid Memory process   Imagery  
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Organizing items into familiar, manageable units (Automatically)   Chunking  
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Discovered that behavioral memory was stored in the cerebellum   Richard Thompson  
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Developed the idea that memories can be localized and distributed depending on complexity   Karl Lashley  
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Did study in Aplysia to study synaptic changes   Eric Kandel  
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An increase in synapses firing potential after stimulation. Nueral basis for learning and memory.   Long Term Potentiation  
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An unconscious association of things which predisposes a persons perception, memory, or response. (Cow. Milk)   Priming  
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Developed priming   William James  
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Recalling experiences that are consistent with a mood felt during that experience   Mood Congruency  
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Knowing something from one state to another (Drunk to sober)   State dependent memory  
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Inaccessibility of stored information   Blocking  
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Storage decaying over time   Transience  
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Inattention to detail   Absent minded  
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Confusing information source   Misattribution  
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Inability to form new memories after and accident   Anterograde  
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Inability to remember events before an accident   Retrograde  
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Inability to remember early childhood   Infantile  
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Amnesia caused by sever alcohol abuse   Korsakoffs Psychosis  
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Amnesia triggered by severe trauma   Hysterical  
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Amnesia caused by severe non penetrative blow to the head (May lead to loss of consciousness/coma)   Traumatic  
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Mental activities associated with thinking,knowing,remembering, and communicating   Cognition  
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Mental grouping of similar objects,events, ideas, or people   Concepts  
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Mental image/example that incorporates all the features we associate a category   Prototype  
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Our spoken,written, or signed words and the way we combine them to communicate   Language  
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Smallest distinctive sound unit   Phoneme  
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Smallest unit that carries meaning   Morphemes  
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System of rules which enable us to understand others   Grammar  
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Rules of sentence order   Syntax  
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Effortless/immediate automatic feeling or thoughts "Gut Feeling"   Intuition  
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Step by step procedure to get a solution   Aligorithm  
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