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| 9015448752 | Memory | - Our ability to store and retrieve information | 0 | |
| 9015452806 | Flashbulb Memory | - A very important and emotional memory | 1 | |
| 9015469500 | Automatic Processing | - Memory that happens without effort | 2 | |
| 9015474111 | Effortful Processing | - Putting effort towards learning - Requires reherarsal (repitition) | 3 | |
| 9015484336 | Semantic Memory | - Memory based on a definition | 4 | |
| 9015486688 | Procedural Memory | - Memory based on order of operations (completing a task) | 5 | |
| 9015489914 | Episodic Memory | - Memory based on an exact event | 6 | |
| 9015493356 | Next-In-Line Effect | - Says that in a group where each person speaks, you will forget the speech of the person who spoke right before you | 7 | |
| 9015501170 | Spacing Effect | - Says that a person learns better through studying in small chunks rather than all at once | 8 | |
| 9015506701 | Serial Position Effect | - Says that you will typically have a strong recollection of items at the beginning and end of a list (primacy and recency effect) | 9 | |
| 9015530726 | Method of Loci | - Mnemonic device in which someone memorizes items by picturing them within different rooms in their home | 10 | |
| 9015540435 | Link Method | - Mnemonic device in which someone memorizes items by combining them all into a story | 11 | |
| 9015548194 | Chunking | - Sorting items into meaningful units | 12 | |
| 9015551748 | Sensory Memory | - Memory store with unlimited capacity and a split second duration | 13 | |
| 9015572621 | Ionic Memory | - Memory created through vision | 14 | |
| 9015574564 | Echoic Memory | - Memory created through sound | 15 | |
| 9015579995 | Hepatic Memory | - Memory created through touch | 16 | |
| 9015582669 | Working Memory | - Same as short-term memory - Memory store with a capacity of 7 +/- 2 items and a 20 second duration | 17 | |
| 9015590316 | Long-Term Memory | - Memory store with an unlimited capacity and an eternal duration | 18 | |
| 9015603016 | Long-Term Potentiation | - Strengthening of memories that occurs through the strengthening of synapses between neurons, particularly to the release of serotonin | 19 | |
| 9015615657 | Anterograde Amnesia | - Being able to remember everything before a certain event, but being unable to form new memories | 20 | |
| 9015620818 | Implicit Memories | - Same as procedural memories - Memories that you must do an action to prove that you know - Located in the cerebellum - People with anterograde amnesia can form new ones | 21 | |
| 9015632995 | Explicit Memories | - Also known as declarative memory - Memories that you can state to prove that you know - Located in the hippocampus - People with anterograde amnesia cannot form new ones | 22 | |
| 9015647074 | Retrieval | - Getting information out of the memory store | 23 | |
| 9015651249 | Recognition | - Identifying an item amongst other choices | 24 | |
| 9015655231 | Recall | - Directly retrieving info | 25 | |
| 9015658169 | Relearning | - Learning something faster a second time | 26 | |
| 9015660222 | Retrieval Cue | - A web of associations that help you recall things from your memory | 27 | |
| 9015663842 | Priming | - The process of activating memory strands to help you remember a particular piece of information | 28 | |
| 9015681971 | State Dependent Memory | - Says that memories are remembered most strongly when you are placed in the same situation that you learned the memory in | 29 | |
| 9015693354 | Mood Congruent Memory | - The memories you retrieve commonly match the current mood you are feeling | 30 | |
| 9015701080 | Encoding Failure | - Type of forgetting that occurs when the memory doesn't even get into your brain | 31 | |
| 9015708095 | Storage Decay | - Type of forgetting that occurs when the memory is put into the brain at one point but lost over time | 32 | |
| 9015712028 | Retrieval Failure | - Type of forgetting that occurs when the memory is in your brain, but you don't know how to get to it (tip of the tongue) | 33 | |
| 9015716294 | Proactive Interference | - Type of forgetting that occurs when something old makes you forget something new | 34 | |
| 9015720484 | Retroactive Interference | - Type of forgetting that occurs when something new makes you forget something old | 35 | |
| 9015727552 | Motivated Forgetting | - Type of forgetting that occurs when people try to block out unwanted memories | 36 | |
| 9015729802 | Repression | - Discovered by Freud - Defense mechanism that unconsciously blocks out unwanted memories | 37 | |
| 9015736636 | Misinformation Effect | - Incorporation of misleading info into your memory of an event due to a human tendency to fill in missing pieces of information when forming memories | 38 | |
| 9015749455 | Source Amnesia | - Attributing an event to the wrong source that we experienced, heard, read, or imagined | 39 | |
| 9015758484 | Concept | - A mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people | 40 | |
| 9015762018 | Category Hierarchies | - Ways in which we mentally organize concepts |  | 41 |
| 9015771762 | Algorithms | - Trying every possible combination until you find one that works | 42 | |
| 9015781621 | Heuristics | - Mental shortcuts that allow us to make judgements and solve problems efficiently | 43 | |
| 9015788240 | Insight | - Knowing the answer to a problem immediately | 44 | |
| 9015794123 | Confirmation Bias | - Looking for facts that prove your point while disregarding facts that don't | 45 | |
| 9015799031 | Fixation | - An inability to see another solution to a problem | 46 | |
| 9015804385 | Mental Set | - A tendency to keep solving a problem the same way, even if there is a better solution | 47 | |
| 9015811821 | Functional Fixedness | - A tendency to only think of the main purpose of an object | 48 | |
| 9015815413 | Representative Heuristic | - When something matches your prototype, you automatically think of it as the correct answer | 49 | |
| 9015822510 | Availability Heuristic | - Memorable things seem more common | 50 | |
| 9015825364 | Exaggerated Fear | - A fear of something that poses little to no danger | 51 | |
| 9015829466 | Framing | - When someone states something in a way that sounds favorable | 52 | |
| 9015848689 | Belief Bias | - A person's preexisting belief to distort logical reasoning by making invalid conclusions - If you agree with a viewpoint, you are more likely to view it as fact | 53 | |
| 9015862895 | Belief Perseverance | - Continuing to uphold a belief despite facing evidence that proves that those beliefs are incorrect | 54 | |
| 9015868394 | Phonemes | - The smallest distinct sound unit in a spoken language | 55 | |
| 9015873077 | Morphemes | - The smallest unit in a spoken language that carries a meaning - Short words, suffixes, prefixes, etc. | 56 | |
| 9015878950 | Semantics | - The set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences | 57 | |
| 9015885051 | Syntax | - The rules for putting words into the correct order within a sentence | 58 | |
| 9015892972 | Operant Learning | - Skinner's language theory that states that language is learned through experience, rewards, and punishments | 59 | |
| 9015897463 | Inborn Universal Grammar | - Noam Chomsky's language theory that states that language is so complicated but we are able to learn it so quickly as kids, so the fundamentals of language must exist in the brain from birth - Language Acquisition Device | 60 | |
| 9015916248 | Critical Period Hypothesis | - Language theory that says that there is a certain time where language is learned the easiest, (critical period) but you must still be taught language to learn it | 61 | |
| 9015929002 | Linguistic Determinism | - Theory that says that the words you know affect what you can think about, and vice versa | 62 |
