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Chap 6

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Constructive processing   Memory retrieval process or built  
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misinformation effect   The tendency of misleading information  
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Hindsight bias   The tendency to falsely believe through revision of old memories  
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False memory syndrome   The creation of an accurate or false memory  
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Recall   Memory retrieval in which the information to be retrieve must be pulled from the memory  
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Serial position effect   Information at the beginning and at the end of a body of information  
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Retrieval failure   Recall has failed  
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Primacy effect   The tendency to remember information at the beginning of the body  
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Recency effect   The tendency to remember information at the end of the body  
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Recognition   The ability to match a piece of information or stimulus to a stored image or fact  
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False positive   In error of recognition in which people think that they recognize a stimulus  
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Automatic encoding   Tendency of certain kinds of information to enter long-term memory  
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Flashbulb memories   Automatic encoding that occurs because an Unexpected event has strong emotional associations  
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Semantic memory   Declaritive memory containing general knowledge  
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Episodic memory   Declarative memory containing personal information not readily available to others  
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Encoding specificity   To remember information to be improved of retrieval conditions  
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Two kinds of retrieval memories   Recall and recognition  
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Retro grade amnesia   Backwards  
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Anterograde amnesia   Loss of memory from the point of injury or trauma forward  
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Memory trace   Physical change in the brain that occurs when a memory is formed  
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Proactive interference   Older information prevents interferes  
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Retroactive interference   Newer information  
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STM   Lasts for 12-30 seconds/ susceptible to interference  
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LTM   information that is placed to be kept more or less permanently  
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Chunking   Bits of information  
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Procedural memory   Often called nine decorative or implicit memory all things people can do  
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Nondecorative implicit memory   Long term memory including skills procedures habits and conditioned responses  
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Declaritive explicit memory   All things that people know  
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Sensory memory   The very first stage of memory  
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Iconic memory   Visual sensory memory last only a fraction of a second  
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Echoic memory   Brief memory of something a person has just heard  
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Digit span test   The series of numbers is read to people to recall the numbers in order  
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Storage   Holding onto information for some period of time  
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Retrieval   Getting information out of storage  
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3 processes of memory   Encoding storage and retrieval  
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Memory   In active system that receives information from the senses  
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