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The cognitive level
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Encoding | The mental process by which long term memories are formed |
| Storage | The amount of information that can be stored to memory |
| Retrieval | long term memories are brought into working memories |
| Iconic Memory | sensory memory for the sense of vision |
| Echohic Memory | sensory memory for the sense of hearing |
| Attention | concentration of mental effort on select sensory or mental events |
| Short term memory | storage system characterized by a duration estimated at about 12 seconds |
| Motivated forgetting | failing to retain stored information to memory, often due to the potentially aversive nature of such information |
| Retrieval based forgetting | forgetting information due to inadequate long term memory |
| Retroactive interference | Newly aquired information disrups the retrieval of previously learned information |
| Proactive interference | the loss of memory for one set of information that results from the prior learning of another set of information |
| Interference | the prevention of aquirring new information due to the previous acquisition of old information |
| Decay Theory | forgetting due to a lack of use or rehearsal of previously available information |
| Episodic memory | explicit memory of past events in one's own life |
| Semantic memory | memory that stores word meanings, concepts and world knowledge |
| procedural memory | implicit memory that enables a person to perform specific learned skills or habitual responses |
| long term memory | information that is retained in the mind for long periods of time |
| maintained rehearsal | a person strives to hold information in short term memory for a period of time |
| Method of Loci | A mnemonic technique associating items to be remembered with physical locations |
| The misinformation effect | exposing people to misleading information can cause their memories to become distorted |
| Primacy | things are better remembered at the beginning of a sequence |
| Recency | things are better remembered at the end of a sequence |
| Storage Based Forgetting | information in the long term memory was distorted altered or changed so it is no longer accessible when searching for what it "used to be" |
| Learning Curve | when people are learning fast the curve is said to be high and when people are learning slow the curve is said to be low |
| Repression | the mind prevents anxiety provoking ideas from becoming conscious |
| Storage Based Forgetting | information in the long term memory was distorted altered or changed so it is no longer accessible when searching for what it "used to be" |
| Learning Curve | when people are learning fast the curve is said to be high and when people are learning slow the curve is said to be low |
| Repression | the mind prevents anxiety provoking ideas from becoming conscious |
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