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Psychology Unit 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Memory | the persistance of learning over time through the storage and retrieval of info |
| Recall | Bringing forth information that has previously been remembered |
| Recognition | determining whether information has been seen or learned before |
| Relearning | how much more quickly information is processed or learned when it is studied again after it has already been learned but forgotten |
| Iconic memory | fleeting photographic/visual (1/5 of a second) |
| Echoic | Fleeting auditory (3-4 seconds) |
| Effortful Processing | encoding that requires attention and conscious effort |
| spacing effect | over time |
| serial position effect | recall best the first and last items in a list |
| Self-reference effect | it is easier to recall information that we can relate to ourselves |
| Chunking | organizing items into a familiar, manageable unit |
| Semantics= | meaning |
| Semantic memory | remembering the meaning of a situation rather than specific details |
| Explicit/declarative memory | memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and declare |
| Episodic memories | personally experienced events |
| Implicit/Nondeclarative/procedural memory | retention independent of conscious recollection |
| Processes explicit memories for storage | hippocampus and frontal lobe |
| Episodic experienced events in | cerebellum and basal ganglia |
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