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Psych Unit 6A Vocab

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Memory   Learning that persists over time  
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Recall   Retrieving information  
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Recognition   Identifying previously learned items  
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Encoding   Getting information into our brains  
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Storage   Retain information  
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Retrieval   Get information back out  
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Three-stage memory model/multi-store model   Memory consists of a sensory register, short-term memory, and long-term memory  
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Sensory memory   The mental representation of environments  
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Short-term memory   The recall of material after it is presented or during uninterrupted rehearsal of the material  
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Maintenance rehearsal   Straight repeating of information to memorize it  
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Elaborative rehearsal   Relates new concepts to old ones to help them stick  
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Long-term memory   Memory that involves the storage and recall of information over a long period of time  
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Working memory   Active processing of sensory and long-term memories during short-term memory  
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Central executive   Responsible for focussed processing in working memory  
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Visuospatial sketchpad   Our temporary ability to hold visual and spatial information  
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Phonological loop   The speech and sound-related component of working memory  
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Explicit/declarative memories   Retention of stuff one can consciously know and "declare"  
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Effortful processing   Encoding that requires attention and conscious effort  
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Implicit/nondeclarative memories   Retention of learned skills/associations independent of conscious realisation  
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Procedural memories   A type of long-term, implicit memory involved in the knowledge of skills or how to do things  
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Automatic processing   Unconscious encoding of incidental information  
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Prospective memory   Remembering to carry out an action at an appropriate moment  
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Autobiographical memory   Recollection of past events a jawn has experienced  
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Iconic memory   A fleeting sensory memory of visual stimuli  
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Echoic memory   A fleeting sensory memory of auditory stimuli  
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Chunking   Organizing items into familiar, manageable units  
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Mnemonics   Memory aids, especially ones with vivid imagery and organizational devices  
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Method of Loci   Using visualizations of familiar spatial environments to recall stuff better  
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Categories   Sets of objects in the world  
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Hierarchies   Broad concepts divided and subdivided into narrower concepts  
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Spacing effect: massed vs. distributed practice   The tendency for distributed practice to yield better long-term retention than massed practice  
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Testing effect   Enhanced memory after retrieving, rather than rereading, information  
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Metacognition   The purposeful awareness of one's own thought processes  
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Shallow processing   Encoding on an elementary level  
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Phonemic processing   Use of sounds to process language  
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Structural processing   Remembering only the physical quality of a word  
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Deep processing/semantic processing   Encodes semantically (based on meaning)  
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Semantic memory   Memory of facts and general knowledge  
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Episodic memory   Memory of personally experienced events  
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Memory consolidation   The process of turning short-term memories to long-term ones  
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Long-term potentiation   An increase in a cell's firing potential after repeated stimulation  
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Retrieval cues   Stimuli assisting in memory retrieval  
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Priming   Getting jawns set for shit  
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Context-dependent memory   Needing context for memory  
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State-dependent memory   Needing a certain state for memory  
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Mood-congruent memory   Recalling experiences consistently with mood  
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Serial position effect   Recalling the first and last items in a list  
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Recency effect   Recalling jawns better because of recency  
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Primacy effect   Recalling jawns better because of their proximity to the beginning of something  
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Anterograde amnesia   An inability to form new memories  
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Retrograde amnesia   An inability to retrieve information from one's past  
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Alzheimer's   A disease where loss of memory is a main symptom  
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Infantile amnesia   Inability of adults to recollect early episodic memories  
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Encoding failure   Occurs when information is insufficiently or inadequately encoded  
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Ebbinghaus forgetting curve   Learned information slips out of our memories over time  
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Tip-of-the-tongue forgetting   When one can't recall a word but can recall words of similar form and meaning  
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Proactive interference   When old information interferes with the learning of new information  
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Retroactive interference   When new information inhibits our ability to recall old information  
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Ego   Freud's "realistic" part of personality that was all about compromisation  
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Repression   Unconscious blocking of unpleasant jawns from one's mind  
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Misinformation effect   A type of memory impairment caused by introduction fo misleading infromation  
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Imagination inflation   A tendency to falsely remember jawns that were imagined  
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Source amnesia   The inability to recall where, when, or how one has learned knowledge that has been acquired and retained  
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