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Chapter 7 Pyschology
Key terms of Chpt 7 ( Psychology in your Life - Grisson, Heatherton, Gazzaniga)
Term | Definition |
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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 |