UNIT 4 Psych Part 2 Word Scramble
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| Term | Definition |
| Memory | The persistence of learning over time. A system that encodes, stores, and retrieves information. |
| Recall | retrieving information learned earlier. |
| Recognition | identify items previously learned. |
| Relearning | assesses the amount of time saved when learning material again. |
| Encoding | The modification of information to fit the preferred format for the memory system. |
| Retrieval | The locating and recovering of information from memory. |
| Sensory Memory | Shortest of our memories. Holds sights, sounds, smells, textures. No meaning is given. |
| Working Memory | Short-Term Memory. Sorting and encoding information before transferring it to long-term memory. |
| Long-Term Memory | No limit to the duration or capacity. Implicit and Explicit. |
| Explicit Memory | Declarative Memory. Knowing what. |
| Implicit Memory | Procedural Memory. Knowing how. |
| Self-Reference Effect | cognitive phenomenon in which individuals demonstrate better recall and retention for information that is personally relevant or related to their self-concept. |
| Flashbulb Memories | emotionally intense events that become “burned in” as a vivid-seeming memory. |
| Priming | Triggers a thread of associations that bring us to a concept. |
| Serial Position Effect | The tendency, when learning information in a long list, to more likely recall the first items and the last items. |
| Retrograde Amnesia | inability to retrieve memory of the past. |
| Anterograde Amnesia | inability to form new long-term explicit memories. |
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