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Chapter 7 Pyschology
Key terms of Chpt 7 ( Psychology in your Life - Grisson, Heatherton, Gazzaniga)
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Memory | The nervous system's capacity to acquire and retain skills and knowledge for later |
| encoding | the processing of information so that it can be stored |
| storage | The retention of encoded representations |
| retrival | The act of recalling of remembering stored information when it is needed. |
| attention | Focusing mental resources on information; allows further processing for perception , memory, and response. |
| change bilndness | An individual's failure to notice a large visual changes in the environment |
| sensory storage | |
| working memory | |
| chucking | |
| long-term storage | |
| maintenance rehearsal | |
| elaborative rehearsal | |
| retrograde amnesia | |
| anterograde amnesia | |
| explicit memory | |
| episodic memory | |
| semantic memory | |
| implicit memory | |
| procedural memory | |
| prospective memory | |
| consolidation | |
| retrival cue | |
| forgetting | |
| retroactive interference | |
| proactive interference | |
| persistence | |
| distortion | |
| 3 phases of memory | encoding, storage, retrival |
| filter theory |