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memory and thinking
Cognitive Psych exam II
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| procedural memory | memory for actions, skills, and operations |
| semantic memory | memory of specific events, including when and where they occured |
| explicit memory | memory evaluated by direct memory tests |
| implicit memory | memory evaluated by indirect memory tests |
| priming | facilitation in the detection or recognition of a stimulus by using prior information |
| recognition memory | deciding whether an item had previously occurred in a specific context |
| recognition memory | Deciding whether an item had previously occurred in |
| cued recall | Recall that occurs with hints or cues, such asproviding the questions asked during the judgment phase of a task |
| noncued recall | Recall that occurs without hints or cues provided by the experimenter |
| serial position effect | The ability to recall words at the beginning and end of a list better than words in the middle of the list. |
| primacy effect | The better recall of words at the beginning of a list |
| recency effect | The better recall of words at the end of a list |
| coding | Semantic elaboration of information to make it easier to remember |
| memory code | The format (physical, phonemic, semantic) ofinformation encoded into memory |
| control process | A strategy that determines how information is processed |
| metacognition | The selection of strategies for processing information |
| knowledge acquisition | Storage of information in long-term memory |
| rehearsal | Repeating verbal information to keep it active in short-term memory or to transfer it into long-term memory |
| maintenance rehearsal | Rehearsal that keeps information active in short-term memory |
| rote learning | Learning by repetition rather than through understanding |
| levels of processing | A theory that proposes that “deeper” (semantic) levels of processing enhance memory |
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