Advanced Placement Psychology
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| 5593084948 | memory | the persistence of learning over time through the storage and retrieval of information. |  | 0 |
| 5593084949 | encoding | the processing of getting information into the memory system. |  | 1 |
| 5593084950 | storage | the retention of encoded information over time. |  | 2 |
| 5593084951 | retrieval | the process of getting information out of memory storage. | | 3 |
| 5593084952 | sensory memory | the immediate, very brief recording of what we hear and see. | | 4 |
| 5593084953 | short-term memory | holds a few items for as long as we are thinking about them. | | 5 |
| 5593084954 | long-term memory | the relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system. Includes knowledge, skills, and experiences. | | 6 |
| 5593084955 | rehearsal | the conscious repetition of information, either to maintain it in consciousness or to encode it for storage. |  | 7 |
| 5593084956 | spacing effect | the tendency for distributed study or practice to yield better long-term retention than is achieved through massed study or practice. |  | 8 |
| 5593084957 | serial position effect | our tendency to better recall the first few and last few items in a list. |  | 9 |
| 5593084958 | visual encoding | the encoding of picture images. |  | 10 |
| 5593084959 | acoustic encoding | the encoding of sound, especially the sound of words. |  | 11 |
| 5593084960 | imagery | using mental pictures to effortfully encode information |  | 12 |
| 5593084961 | mnemonics | memory aids that use silly sentences, associations, acrostics, and acronyms |  | 13 |
| 5593084962 | chunking | organizing items into smaller, related, manageable units; often occurs automatically. |  | 14 |
| 5593084963 | iconic memory | a momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli; a photographic or picture-image memory lasting no more than a few tenths of a second. |  | 15 |
| 5593084964 | echoic memory | A momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli; if attention is elsewhere, sounds and words can still be recalled within 3 or 4 seconds. |  | 16 |
| 5593084965 | long-term potentiation (LTP) | an increase in a synapse's firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation. Believed to be a neural basis for learning and memory. |  | 17 |
| 5593084966 | flashbulb memory | a clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event. |  | 18 |
| 5593084967 | implicit memory | Something you were not consciously aware that you remembered until you did it. These are mostly procedural memories. |  | 19 |
| 5593084968 | explicit memory | memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and "declare." (Also called declarative memory.) |  | 20 |
| 5593084969 | hippocampus | a neural center that is located in the limbic system; helps process and form new long term memories |  | 21 |
| 5593084970 | recall | when a person must retrieve a memory with few external cues. It must be "pulled" from their mind and produced. Fill in the blank or an essay are examples |  | 22 |
| 5593084971 | recognition | the ability to match a piece of information to a stored image or fact. Multiple choice questions |  | 23 |
| 5593084972 | priming | the activation, often unconsciously, of particular associations in memory. |  | 24 |
| 5593084973 | déjà vu | that eerie sense that "I've experienced this before." Cues from the current situation may subconsciously trigger retrieval of an earlier experience. |  | 25 |
| 5593084974 | mood-congruent memory | the tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with one's current good or bad mood. |  | 26 |
| 5593084975 | proactive interference | the disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information. |  | 27 |
| 5593084976 | retroactive interference | the disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information. | | 28 |
| 5593084977 | misinformation effect | incorporating misleading information into one's memory of an event. |  | 29 |
| 5593084978 | source amnesia/source monitoring error | attributing an event we have experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined to the wrong source. For instance, thinking we experienced something personally when we really only read about it. Source amnesia, along with the misinformation effect, is at the heart of many false memories. |  | 30 |
| 5593084979 | prospective memory | A memory of something you will do in the future. "I remember I have practice after school today" |  | 31 |
| 5593084980 | Shallow processing | Encoding with no meaning attached, just glancing something over |  | 32 |
| 5593084981 | Maintenance rehearsal | Encoding by repeating again and again, with no meaning attached |  | 33 |
| 5593084982 | Elaborative rehearsal | Encoding by attaching meaning and significance. |  | 34 |
| 5593084983 | Procedural Memory | a memory of how to perform a specific task. Doing a back flip. |  | 35 |
| 5593084984 | Semantic Memory | a memory of a fact or bit of information. Congress has two houses, the Senate and House of Representatives. |  | 36 |
| 5593084985 | Episodic Memory | a memory of something you have personally experienced. I went on the Tower of Terror when I was 5 and hated it. |  | 37 |
| 5593084986 | Elizabeth Loftus | Researcher who demonstrated that eyewitness testimony is not as accurate as we think |  | 38 |
| 5593084987 | Retrospective Memory | memory of anything that has happened in the past. |  | 39 |
| 5593084988 | Context Dependent Memory | You are more likely to remember something when you are in the same/a similar setting as when the memory took place. |  | 40 |
| 5593084989 | State Dependent Memory | You are more likely to remember something when you are in the same mental state as when the memory took place | 41 | |
| 5593084990 | Confabulation | When you remember something that never really happened. You are not lying, it's more the product of a vivid imagination. |  | 42 |
| 5593084991 | Curve of Forgetting | idea that forgetting happens rapidly within the first hour of learning, then tapers off gradually. |  | 43 |
| 5593084992 | Decay Theory | theory that forgetting is caused by the passage of time |  | 44 |
| 5593084993 | Retrograde Amnesia | the inability to remember what happened before sustaining brain injury |  | 45 |
| 5593084994 | Anterograde Amnesia | the inability to form new memories after sustaining brain injury. |  | 46 |
| 5593084995 | Von Restorff Effect | idea that something that stands out and is different from the rest will be more likely remembered. |  | 47 |
| 5593084996 | Ebbinghaus | Researcher who created the curve of forgetting |  | 48 |
| 5593084997 | Reconstructive Memory | remembering is influenced by perception, imagination, expectations, and experience. our brain wants to make memories complete and fit into a meaningful plan even if one doesn't exist. |  | 49 |
