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encoding   show
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storage   show
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show how we remember; The process of bringing to mind information that has been stored in memory.  
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sensory memory   show
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show visual memory .2 seconds  
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echoic   show
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show The memory system that codes information according to sound and holds about seven (from five to nine) items for less than 30 seconds without rehearsal; also called working memory 20 seconds  
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you are able to remember ____ unrelated items for up to 20 seconds   show
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chunking   show
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show The memory system with a virtually unlimited capacity that contains vast stores of a person's permanent or relatively permanent memories.  
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show the subsystem within long term memory that stores facts information, and personal life events that can be brought to mind verbally or in the form of images and then declared or started; also called explicit memory  
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episodic memory   show
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semantic memory   show
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show declarative, nondeclarative  
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show the subsystem within long-term memory that stores motor skills, habits, and simple classically conditioned responses; also called implicit memory  
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_________________ is memory that is easier to learn but easier to forget   show
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show nondeclarative memory  
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show 1. importance of memory 2. distorted memory due to schema  
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recall   show
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show a memory task in which a person must simply identify material as familiar or as having been encountered before  
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show a measure of memory in which retention is expressed as the percentage of time saved when material is relearned compared with the time required to learn the material originally.  
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show encoding, retrieval  
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_____________ memory does not require consciousness.   show
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eyewitness testimony is not __________________.   show
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show How we categorize or make sense of something. The integrated frameworks of knowledge and assumptions a person has about people, objects, and events, which affect how the person encodes and recalls information.  
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show remember something that didn't happen  
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show pushed memory out of memory; motivated forgetting  
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show schema, repressed mem., false mem.  
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show emotional, dramatic; an extremely vivid memory of the conditions surrounding one's first hearing the news of a surprising, shocking or highly emotional event.  
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show photographic memory; the ability to retain the image of a visual stimulus for several minutes after it has been removed from view and to use this retained image to answer questions about the visual stimulus. Remember pattern  
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_______ found that, rather than accurately recalling information detail by detail, people often reconstruct and systematically distort facts to make them more consistent with past experiences.   show
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When a person uses ____ to process information, both encoding and retrieval can be affected.   show
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show flashbulb  
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_________ is the ability to retain the image of a visual stimulus for several minutes after it has been removed from view.   show
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what effect retrieval   show
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show the finding that, for information learned in a sequence, recall is better for the beginning and ending items than for the middle items in the sequence.  
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show more likely to remember 1st thing; the tendency to recall the first items in a sequence more readily than the middle items.  
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recency effect   show
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state dependant memory effect   show
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show serial position effect  
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Both____________ and ___________ can provide retrieval cues for memories.   show
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The ____ happens when individuals acquire information while in a pharmacologically altered state of consciousness or when experiencing a particular emotion.   show
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show episodic, semantic  
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show nondeclarative  
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__________ is the long lasting increase in the efficiency of neural transmission at the synapses; it may be the basis for learning and memory at the level of the neurons.   show
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Memories of circumstances surrounding threatening situations that elicit the fight or flight response activate the ___________.   show
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encoding failure   show
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decay theory   show
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interference   show
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show don't want to remember; forgetting through supression or repression in order to protect oneself from material that is painful, frightening, or otherwise unpleasant.  
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prospective forgetting   show
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______ invented the nonsense syllable, conceived the relearning method for retention, and plotted the curve of forgetting.   show
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show skeep  
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show interference  
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retrieval failure   show
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the ability to recite a number of nursery rhyme from childhood is probably due mainly to ____.   show
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show Declarative memory has episodic memory and semantic memory whereas nondeclarative has motorskills, habits and simple classically conditioned responses  
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show recall, recognition and relearning  
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How do schemas effect memory?   show
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