Advanced Placement Psychology
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| 6495895713 | memory | the persistence of learning over time through the storage and retrieval of information. |  | 0 |
| 6495895714 | encoding | the processing of getting information into the memory system. |  | 1 |
| 6495895715 | storage | the retention of encoded information over time. |  | 2 |
| 6495895716 | retrieval | the process of getting information out of memory storage. | | 3 |
| 6495895717 | sensory memory | the immediate, very brief recording of what we hear and see. | | 4 |
| 6495895718 | short-term memory | holds a few items for as long as we are thinking about them. | | 5 |
| 6495895719 | long-term memory | the relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system. Includes knowledge, skills, and experiences. | | 6 |
| 6495895720 | rehearsal | the conscious repetition of information, either to maintain it in consciousness or to encode it for storage. |  | 7 |
| 6495895723 | visual encoding | the encoding of picture images. |  | 8 |
| 6495895724 | acoustic encoding | the encoding of sound, especially the sound of words. |  | 9 |
| 6495895725 | imagery | using mental pictures to effortfully encode information |  | 10 |
| 6495895726 | mnemonics | memory aids that use silly sentences, associations, acrostics, and acronyms |  | 11 |
| 6495895727 | chunking | organizing items into smaller, related, manageable units; often occurs automatically. |  | 12 |
| 6495895729 | 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. |  | 13 |
| 6495895731 | flashbulb memory | a clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event. |  | 14 |
| 6495895732 | implicit memory | Something you were not consciously aware that you remembered until you did it. These are mostly procedural memories. |  | 15 |
| 6495895733 | explicit memory | memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and "declare." (Also called declarative memory.) |  | 16 |
| 6495895734 | hippocampus | a neural center that is located in the limbic system; helps process and form new long term memories |  | 17 |
| 6495895735 | 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 |  | 18 |
| 6495895736 | recognition | the ability to match a piece of information to a stored image or fact. Multiple choice questions |  | 19 |
| 6495895738 | déjà vu | that eerie sense that "I've experienced this before." Cues from the current situation may subconsciously trigger retrieval of an earlier experience. |  | 20 |
| 6495895739 | mood-congruent memory | the tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with one's current good or bad mood. |  | 21 |
| 6495895740 | proactive interference | the disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information. |  | 22 |
| 6495895741 | retroactive interference | the disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information. | | 23 |
| 6495895742 | misinformation effect | incorporating misleading information into one's memory of an event. |  | 24 |
| 6495895749 | Semantic Memory | a memory of a fact or bit of information. Congress has two houses, the Senate and House of Representatives. |  | 25 |
| 6495895750 | Episodic Memory | a memory of something you have personally experienced. I went on the Tower of Terror when I was 5 and hated it. |  | 26 |
| 6495895751 | Elizabeth Loftus | Researcher who demonstrated that eyewitness testimony is not as accurate as we think |  | 27 |
| 6495895754 | State Dependent Memory | You are more likely to remember something when you are in the same mental state as when the memory took place | 28 | |
| 6495895758 | Retrograde Amnesia | the inability to remember what happened before sustaining brain injury |  | 29 |
| 6495895759 | Anterograde Amnesia | the inability to form new memories after sustaining brain injury. |  | 30 |
| 6496174617 | H.M. | Patient that suffered from anterograde amnesia after having his hippocampus removed, a leading case study that helped develop the field of neuropsychology. | 31 | |
| 6496194678 | Stephen Wiltshire | He suffers from autism, but also has the ability to draw extensive landscapes from memory. (Savant Syndrome) | 32 | |
| 6496206571 | Clive Wearing | Suffers from anterograde amnesia. His memories of conducting music and motor memories for playing the piano are intact, but he can not form new memories. | 33 |
