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| The persistance of learning over time through the storage and retrieval of information. | ||
| A clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event. | ||
| The processing of information into the memory system; for example, by extracting meaning. | ||
| The retention of encoded information over time. | ||
| The process of getting information out of memory storage | ||
| The immediate, initial recording of sensory information in the memory system. | ||
| Activated memory that holds a few items briefly. | ||
| The relatively permament and limitless storehouse of the memory stystem. | ||
| Unconscious encoding of incidental information, such as space, time, and frequency, and of well learned information, such as word meanings. | ||
| Encoding that requires attention and conscious effort. | ||
| The conscious repetition of information, either to maintain it in consciousness or to encode it for storage | ||
| The tendency for distributed study or practice to yield better long term retention than is achieved throught massed study or practice. | ||
| Our tendency to recall best the last and first items in a list. | ||
| The encoding of picture images. | ||
| The encoding of sound, especially the sound of words. | ||
| The encoding of meaning, including the meaning of words. | ||
| Mental pictures; a powerful aid to effortful processing, especially when combined with semantic encoding. | ||
| Memory aids, especially those techniques that use vivid emagery and organizational devices | ||
| Organizing items into familiar, manageable units; often occures automatically. | ||
| A momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli; a photographic or picture image memory lasting no more than a few tenths of a second. | ||
| A momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli; if attention is elsewhere, sounds and words can still be recalled within 3 or 4 seconds | ||
| An increase in a synapse's firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation. Believed to be a neural basis for learning and memory. | ||
| The loss of memory. | ||
| Retention independent of conscious recollection. | ||
| Memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and declare. | ||
| A neural center located in the limbic system that helps process explicit memories for storage. | ||
| A measure of memory in which the person must retrieve information learned earlier. | ||
| A measure of memory in which the person need only identify items previously learned. | ||
| A memory measure that assesses the amount of time saved when learning material for a second time. | ||
| The activation, often unconsciously, of particular associations in memory. | ||
| That eerie sense that "I've experienced this before." Cues from the current situation may subconsciously trigger retrieval of an earlier experience. | ||
| The tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with one's current good or bad mood. | ||
| The disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information. | ||
| The disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information. | ||
| In psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness. | ||
| Incorporating misleading information into one's memory of an event. | ||
| Attributing to the wrong source an event we have experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined. | ||
| Loss of memory for events immediately before a trauma. | ||
| Loss of memory for events immediately after a trauma. |
