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| Memory that clearly and distinctly expresses (explicates) specific information; also referred to as declarative memory (data, facts, figures). | Explicit Memory
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| Memories of events experiences by a person or that take place in the person's presence. | Episodic Memory
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| General knowledge, as opposed to episodic memory. | Semantic Memory
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| Memory that is suggested (implied) but not plainly expressed, as illustrated in the things that people do bt do not state clearly; also referred to as nondeclarative memory (how-to actions). | Implicit Memory
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| The activation of specific associations in memory, oftn as a result of repitition and without making a conscious effort to access the memory. | Priming
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| Memory for past events, activities, and learning experiences, as shown by explicit (episodic and semantic) and implicit memories. | Retrospective Memory
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| Memory to perform an act in the future, as at a certain time or when a certain event occurs. | Prospective Memory
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| The rapid jumps made by a person's eyes as they fixate on different points. | Saccadic Eye Movement
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| The type or stage of memory first encountered by a stimulus. Sensory memory holds impressions briefly, but long enough so that series of perceptions are psychologically continuous. | Sensory Memory
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| An assumed change in the nervous system that reflects the impression made by the stimulus. Said to be "held" in sensory registers. | Memory Trace
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| A system of memory that holds information briefly, but long enough so that it can be processed further. "Gate Keeper" | Sensory Register
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| A mental representation of a visual stimulus that is held briefly in sensory memory. | Icon
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| The sensory register that briefly holds mental representations of visual stimuli (the 5 senses). | Iconic Memory
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| The maintenance of detailed visual memories over several minutes. | Eidetic Imagery
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| The type or stage of memory that can hold information for up to a minute or so after the trace of the stimulus decays; also called working memory. | Short-term Memory
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| 5 Minute breaks every hour- creating primary and recency effect, more effective way of studying. | Space-Practice
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| The tendency to recall more accurately the first and last items in a series. | Serial-position Effect
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| The tendency to recall the initial items in a series of items. | Primacy Effect
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| The tendency to recall the last items in a series of items. | Recency Effect
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| A stimulus or group of stimuli that is perceived as a discrete piece of information (SS#s or phone #s). | Chunk
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| Mechanical associative learning that is based on repetition. | Rote
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| In memory theory, to cause information to be lost from short-term memory by adding new information. | Displace
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| The type or stage of memory capable of relatively permanent storage (even things we thought we forgot, truly learned information). | Long-term Memory
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| In Freud's psychodynamic theory, the ejection of anxiety-evoking ideas from conscious awareness. | Repression
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| A way of mentally representing the world, sch as a belief or an expectation, that can influence perception of persons, objects, and situations. | Schema
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| A memory that is highly detailed and strongly emotionally elaborated because of its great and unusual significance. | Flashbulb Memory
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| The feeling that information is stored in memory although it cannot be readily retrieved; also called the feeling-of-knowing experience. | Tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) Phenomenon
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| Information that is better retrieved in the context in which it was encoded and stored, or learned. | Context-dependent Memory
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| Information that is better retrieved in the physiological or emotional state in which it was encoded and stored, or learned. | State-dependent Memory
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| Meaningless sets of two consonants, with a vowel sandwiched between, that are used to study memory. | Nonsense Syllables
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| In information, processing, the easiest memory task, involving identification of objects or events encountered before (multiple choice or true/false questions). | Recognition
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| Retrieval or reconstruction of learned material (essay questions). | Recall
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| Nonsense syllables presented in pairs in experiments that measure recall. | Paired Associates
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| A measure of retention. Material is usally relearned more quickly than it is learned initially. | Relearning
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| The view that we may forget stored material becase other learning interferes with it. | Interference Theory
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| The interference of new learning with the ability to retrieve material learned previously. | Retroactive Interference
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| The interference of old learning with the ability to retrieve material learned recently. | Proactive Interference
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| Amnesia thought to stem from psychological conflict or trauma (repression may be at the heart of this). | Dissociative Amnesia
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| Inability to recall events that occured priod to the age of 3 or so; also termed childhood amnesia. | Infantile Amnesia
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| A structure in the limbic syste that plays an important role in the formation of new memories ("memory photo album"). | Hippocampus
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| Failure to remember events that occured after physical trauma because of the effects of the trauma (cannot have memories AFTER the trauma). | Anterograde Amnesia
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| Failure to remember events that occured prior to physical trauma because of the effects of the trauma (cannot remember anything that happened BEFORE the trauma). | Retrograde Amnesia
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