AP Psychology: Memory
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| Short Term Memory | Activated memory that holds a few items briefly.
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| Long Term Memory | The relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system.
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| Sensory Memory | The immediate, brief recording of sensory information in the memory system.
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| Automatic Processing | Unconscious encoding of incidental information.
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| Effortful Processing | Encoding that requires attention and conscious effort.
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| Rehearsal | The conscious repetition of information.
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| Imagery | Mental pictures; a powerful aid to effortful processing, especially when combined with semantic coding.
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| Chunking | Organizing items into familiar manageable units.
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| Mnemonics | Memory aids, especially those techniques that use vivid imagery and organizational devices.
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| Iconic Memory | A momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli.
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| Echoic Memory | A momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli.
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| Amnesia | The loss of memory.
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| Implicit Memory | Retention independent of conscious recollection.
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| Explicit Memory | Memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and declare.
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| Hippocampus | A neural center that is located in the limbic system and helps process explicit memories for storage.
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| Recall | A measure of memory in which the person must retrieve information learned earlier.
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| Recognition | A measure of memory in which the person need only identify items previously learned.
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| Déjà vu | The eerie sense that “I have experienced this before.” Cues from current situation may trigger retrieval of an earlier experience.
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| Misinformation Effect | Incorporating misleading information into ones memory of an event.
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| Acoustic Codes | Represent information as sequence of sounds.
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| Visual Codes | Represent stimuli as pictures
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| Semantic Codes | Represent an experience by its general meaning.
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| Encoding | The first stages of memory process where information is put into memory codes.
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| Storage | The 2nd step in memory process which refers to the maintenance of information over time.
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| Retrieval | The 3rd step in memory process which finds information stored in memory and brings it to consciousness.
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| Episodic Memory | Memory of any even one was present at.
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| Semantic Memory | Memory of general knowledge one was not present at.
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| Procedural Memory | Memory of how to do things. (Ex: Ride a bike)
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| Transfer-Appropriate Processing | Theory suggests that the critical determinant of memory is how the encoding process matches up with what is ultimately retrieved.
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