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Chap 6

Social Psychology

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Autobiographical Memory refers to memory of an individuals history
Availability the presence of information used in long-term memory
Consolidation the process of integrating new information into stored information
Constructive prior experience affects how we recall things and what we actually recall from memory
Decay occurs when simply the passage of time causes an individual to forget
Distributed Practice learning in which various sessions are spaced over time
Encoding refers to how you transform a physical sensory input into a kind of representation that can be placed into memory
Encoding Specificity what is recalled depends on what is encoded
Flashbulb memory a memory of an event so powerful that the person remembers the event as vividly as if it were indelibly preserved on film
Interference refers to the view that forgetting occurs because recall of certain words interferes with recall of other words
Massed Practice learning in which sessions are crammed together in a very short space of time
Meta Cognition our understanding and control of our cognition; our ability to think about and control our own processes of thought and ways of enhancing our thinking
Metamemory strategies involve refelecting on our own memory processes with a new view to improving our memory
Mnemonic Devices specific techniques to help you memorize list of words
Primary Effect refers to a superior recall of words at and near the beginning of a list
Proactive Interference occurs when the interfearing material occurs before, rather than after learning of the to-be-remembered material
Recall Effect refers to superior recall of words at and near the end of a list
Rehearsal the repeated recitation of an item
Retrieval (memory) refers to how you gain access to information stored in memory
Retroactive Interference caused by activity occuring ofter we learn something but before we are asked to recall that thing; also called retroactive inhibition
Storage (memory) refers to how you retain encoded information in memory
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