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conditioned stimulus   stimulus that becomes able to produce a learned a reflex response by being paired with the original unconditioned stimulus  
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conditioned responed   learned reflex response to a conditioned stimulus.  
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unconditioned response   an involuntary(reflex) response to a naturally occurring or unconditioned stimulus  
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unconditioned stimulus   a naturally occurring stimulus that lead to an involuntary reflex response  
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stimulus generalization   the tendency to respond to stimulus that is only similar to the original conditioned stimulus with the conditioned response  
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stimulus discrimination   the tendency to stop making a generalized response to a stimulus that is similar to the original conditioned stimulus because the similar stimulus is never paired with the unconditioned stimulus  
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extinction   the disappearance or weakening of a learned response following the removal or absence of the u  
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reinforcement   any event or stimulus that, when following a response, increases the probability that the response will occur again  
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primary reinforce   any reinforce that is naturally reinforcing by meeting a basic biological need,such as hunger, thirst,or touch  
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secondary reinforce   any reinforce that becomes reinforcing after being paired with a primary reinforce, such as praise, token, or gold star  
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positive reinforce   the reinforcement of a response by the addition or experience of a pleasurable consequence,such as a reward or pat on  
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negative reinforce   the reinforcement of a response by the removal, escape form, or avoidance of an unpleasant stimulus  
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fixed interval   the kind of reinforcement schedule most people are more familiar  
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variable interval schedule   schedule of reinforcement in which the interval of time that must pass before reinforcement becomes po  
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fixed ratio   schedule of reinforcement in which the number  
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application   the punishment of a response by the addition or experience of an unpleasant stimulus  
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removal   the punishment of a response by the removal of a pleasurable stimulus  
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encoding   set mental operations that people perform on sensory information to convert that information into a form that is usable in the brain's storage systems  
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storage   holding onto information for some period of time  
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retrieval   getting information that is in storage into a form that can be used  
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iconic   visual sensory memory, lasting only fraction of a second  
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echoic   the brief memory of something a person has just heard  
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duration   sperling also found that if he delayed the tone for a brief  
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working memory   an active system that processes the information  
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selective attention   the ability to focus on only one stimulus from among all sensory input  
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chucking   there is a way to fool stm into holding more information than is usual  
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maintenance rehearsal   practice of saying information to be remembered over and over in one head in order to maintain it in short-term memory  
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long term memory   the system of memory into which all the information is placed to be kept more or less permanently  
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short term memory   the memory system in which information is held for brief period of time while being used  
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elaboration rehearsal   a method of transferring information from stm into ltm by making that information meaning full in some way  
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implicit   memory that is not easily brought into conscious awareness, such as procedural memory  
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explicit   memory that is consciously known, such as declarative memory  
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procedural   type of long term memory including memory for skill, procedures,habits,and conditioned responses. these memories are not conscious but are implied to exist because they affect conscious behavior  
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declarative   type of long term memory containing information that is conscious and known  
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semantic   type of declarative memory containing general knowledge such as knowledge of language and information learned in formal education  
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episodic   type of declarative memory containing personal information not readily available to other such as daily actives and events  
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anterograde amnesia   loss of memory from the point of injury or trauma forward, or the inability to form new long-term memories  
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proactive interference   memory problem that occurs when older information prevents or interfere with the learning or retrieval of newer information  
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retroactive interference   memory retrieval problem that occurs when newer information prevent or interferes with the retrieval of older information.  
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retrograde amnesia   loss of memory from the point of some injury or trauma backward, or loss of memory for the past  
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constructive processing   referring to the retrial or memories in which those memories are altered,revised, or influenced by newer information  
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hindsight bias   the tendency to falsely believe, through revision of older memories to include newer information, that one could have correctly predicted the outcome of an event  
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misinformation effect   the tendency of misleading information presented after an event to alter the memories of the event itself  
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hippo campus   curved structure located within each temporal lobe, responsible for the foundation of long-term memories and the storage of memory for loction  
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