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| 140350336 | episodic | Pain of a broken leg is an example of what type of memory? | |
| 140350337 | 10-12 seconds | How long is information retained in short-term memory? | |
| 140350338 | recognition | What is the easiest of the three memory tasks? | |
| 140350339 | state-dependent | These type of memories are retrieved when a person is in a particular mood: | |
| 140350340 | schemas | We can more easily remember bits of information by organizing them into mental representations of the world called_________. | |
| 140350341 | anterograde amnesia | Is the loss of ability to store new memories particularly after trauma to the brain | |
| 140350342 | recall | The second memory task, bringing something back to mind | |
| 140350343 | sensory memory | First stage of information, the immediate, initial recording of data. | |
| 140350344 | echoic memory | mental sensory register of mental traces of sound | |
| 140350345 | repression | Unconscious forgetting of painful or unpleasant memories | |
| 140350347 | Eidetic imagery | ability to remember visual stimuli over a long period of time | |
| 140350348 | chunking | organization of items into familiar or manageable units | |
| 140350349 | iconic memory | sensory registers of accurate, photographic images | |
| 140350350 | retrograde amnesia | the loss of ability to remember events leading up to a traumatic event | |
| 140350351 | Explicit | the memory of specific information such as a particular event or piece of general knowledge is called_____. | |
| 140350352 | Short-term memory | Another name for working memory | |
| 140350353 | interference | When short-term memory is full, _____occurs as new information displaces what was there. | |
| 140350354 | decay | The fading away of memory over time. | |
| 140350355 | memory | The processes by which we recall experiences, information and skills is known as _______. | |
| 140350356 | Encoding | _____is the process of converting a physical stimulus received through the senses into a psychological format that can be represented mentally. | |
| 140350357 | Explicit | Semantic and episodic memories are both examples of _____memory | |
| 140350358 | HM | patient who suffered severed epileptic seizures who had part of his hippocampus removed; he showed he still had the capacity to learn. | |
| 140350359 | Clive Wearing | after an infection his brain disabled his episodic and autobiographical memory; he suffered total anterograde amnesia and near total retrograde amnesia | |
| 140350360 | infantile amnesia | the inability to remember events that occurred during one's early life. | |
| 140364896 | primacy effect | the tendency to recall the initial items in a series | |
| 140364897 | recency effect | the tendency to recall the last items in a series |
