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Psychology Ch 8

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Term
Definition
Source Amnesia   wrong source if an experienced event or incorrectly saying something from a source  
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Mood-Congruent Memory   remembering things similar to the what you're feeling  
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Implicit Memory   independent retention and conscious recollection it is the nondeclarative memory and it is knowing how to do something  
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Amnesia   memory loss  
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Explicit Memory   memory of facts and experiences it is the declarative memory  
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Hippocampus   neural center in the limbic system that helps create memories  
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Memory   persistent learning over time and the storage and retrieval of information  
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Effortful Processing   requires consciousness and attentions  
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Encoding   processing information  
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Automatic Processing   unconscious adding of information including space, time, and frquency  
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Long-term Memory   almost permanent storage that is limitless and stores knowledge, skills, and experience  
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Rehearsal   repeating information to remember it better  
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Mneumonics   memory aids that are usually acronyms  
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Chunking   grouping into understandable categories  
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Flashbulb Memory   clear memory of a tragic or life changing event it is a vivid memory  
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Sensory Memory   immediate and short-term memory  
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Working Memory   newer comprehension of a short-term memory by relating it to long-term memory and it is conscious, active processing  
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Visual Encoding   understanding and processing pictures  
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Storage   place where information is kept over time  
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Acoustic Encoding   understanding and processing sounds  
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Long-term Potentiation   increase in synapse firing potential with rapid stimulation  
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Spacing Effect   studying a little at a time that leads to better retention  
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Misinformation Effect   distorted information stored of an event  
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Proactive Interference   old information disrupts recalling new information  
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Retroactive Interference   new information messes up recalling old information  
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One Sin of Intrusion   persistence which is unwanted memories constantly bothering  
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Priming   activation that is mainly unconscious ti retrieve a specific memory  
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Deja Vu   weird feeling that you have done something before and it is believed that it is subconscious cues that may retrieve earlier experiences  
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Three Sins of Distortion   misattribution, suggestibility, and bias  
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Relearning   measure of memory that assesses the amount of time saved when learning something again  
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Iconic Memory   momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli  
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Three Sins of Forgetting   absentmindedness, transience, blocking  
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Recall   retrieving information you learned earlier  
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Repression   in psychoanalytic theory when it is a basic defense mechanism to erase harmful memories  
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Recognition   measure of memory and noticing a familiar thing  
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Serial Positioning Effect   retaining the information that is first and last the best  
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Imagery   mental pictures  
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Short-term Memory   holds a few things at a time  
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Semantic Encoding   processing meaning  
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Retrieval   getting information out of storage  
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Echoic Memory   short-term memory of something you have heard only lasting a few seconds  
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Bower   hierarchies and chunking  
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Atkinson and Shriffin   3 stages sensory, short-term, long-term  
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Jenkins and Dollenbach   memory and sleep  
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Sperling   iconic memory  
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Roediger Mc Dermott   false memories and persistence  
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Poole and Lindsay   source amnesia with M. Science  
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Freud   repression of painful memories  
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George Miller   magical number 7 in which sort-term memory can only retain 7 plus or minus 2  
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Ebbinghaus   effortful processing by rehearsing nonsense syllables  
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Bahrick   graduation photos by recognizing but not recalling  
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Loftus and paler   analyzed vivid memories with misinformation car crash  
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Schacter   7 sins of memory  
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Golden and Baddely   memory on land and water  
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Lashley   took chinks of rat brain to see if they still had memory  
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