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Psychology midterm

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memory   An active system that receives, stores, organizes, alters, and recovers information  
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Iconic Memory   sensory images  
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Echoic Memory   sound memory  
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Short-term Memory   Holds small amounts of information in conscious awareness for a dozen seconds or so  
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Selective Attention   focusing on a selected portion of sensory input; controls what information moves on to short-term memory  
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Long-term Memory   Memory system used for relatively permanent storage of meaningful information  
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Chunking   Information that can be grouped together into one chunk  
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Maintenance Rehearsal   silently repeating or mentally reviewing information to hold it in short-term memory longer  
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Rate Learning   learning by simple repetition  
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Elaborative Encoding   links new information to memories that are already in long-term memory  
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Redintegration   The process by which memories are reconstructed or expanded by starting with one memory and then following chains of association to other, related memory  
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Tip-of-the Tongue State   the feeling that a memory is available but not quite retrievable  
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Feeling of Knowing   a feeling that allows people to prejudice beforehand whether they will be able to remember something  
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Déjà vu   the illusion that you have already experienced a new situation that you are actually seeing for the first time  
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Memory Tasks   any task designed to test or assess memory  
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Recall   to supply or reproduce memorized information with a minimum of external cues  
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Recognition   An ability to correctly identify previously learned information  
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relearning method   Learning again something that was previously learned. Used to measure memory of prior learning  
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Explicit Memory   Past experiences that are consciously brought to mind  
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Implicit Memory   Memories that a person does not know exists; a memory that is retrieved unconsciously  
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Priming   Facilitating the retrieval of an implicit memory by using cues to activate hidden memories  
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Encoding Failure   failure to process information into memory  
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Memory Traces   A term indicating the change in the nervous system representing an event.  
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