Memory
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| Memory | The process by which we encode, store, and retrieve information.
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| Sensory Memory | The initial, momentary storage of information, lasting only an instant.
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| Short-Term Memory | Memory that holds information for 15 to 25 seconds.
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| Long-Term Memory | Memory that stores information on a relatively permanent basis, although it may be difficult to retrieve.
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| Chunk | A meaningful grouping of stimuli that can be stored as a unit in short-term memory.
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| Working Memory | A set of active, temporary memory stores that actively manipulate and rehearse information.
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| Rehearsal | The repetition of information that has entered short-term memory.
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| Declarative Memory | Memory of factual information: names, faces, dates, and the like.
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| Procedural Memory | Memory for skills and habits, such as riding a bike or hitting a baseball; sometimes referred to as non-declarative memory.
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| Semantic Memory | Memory for general knowledge and facts about the world, as well as memory for the rules of logic that are used to deduce other facts.
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| Episodic Memory | Memory for events that occur in a particular time, place, or context.
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| Semantic Networks | Mental representation of clusters of interconnected information.
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| Tp-of-the-Tongue Phenomenon | The inability to recall information that one realizes one knows - a result of the difficulty of retrieving information from long-term memory.
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| Recall | Memory task in which specific information must be retrieved.
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| Recognition | Memory task in which individuals are presented with a stimulus and asked whether they have been exposed to it in the past or to identify it from a list of alternatives.
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| Levels-of-Processing Theory | The theory of memory that emphasizes the degree to which new material is mentally analyzed.
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| Explicit Memory | Intentional or conscious recollection of information.
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| Implicit Memory | Memories of which people are not consciously aware but that can affect subsequent performance and behavior.
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| Priming | A phenomenon in which exposure to a word or concept (called a prime) later makes it easier to recall related information, even when there is no conscious memory of the word or concept.
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| Flashbulb Memories | Memories centered on a specific, important, or surprising event that are so vivid it is as if they represented a snapshot of the event.
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| Constructive Processes | Processes in which memories are influenced by the meaning we give to events.
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| Schemas | Orgnized bodies of information stored in memory that bias the way new information is interpreted, stored, and recalled.
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| Autobiographical Memories | Our recollections of circumstances and episodes from our own lives.
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| Decay | The loss of information in memory through its non-use.
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| Interference | The phenomenon by which information i memory disrupts the recall of other information.
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| Cue-Dependent Forgetting | Forgetting that occurs when there are insufficient retrieval cues to rekindle information that is in memory.
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| Proactive Interference | Interference in which information learned earlier disrupts the recall of newer material.
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| Retroactive Interference | Interference in which there is difficulty in the recall of information learned earlier because of later exposure to different material.
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| Alzheimer's Disease | An illness characterized in part by severe memory problems.
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| Amnesia | Memory loss that occurs without other mental difficulties.
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| Retrograde Amnesia | Amnesia in which memory is lost for occurrences prior to a certain event.
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| Anterograde Amnesia | Amnesia in which memory is lost for events that follow an injury.
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| Korsakoff's Syndrome | A disease that afflicts long-term alcoholics, leaving some abilities intact but including hallucinations and a tendency to repeat the same story.
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