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| 289054505 | Memory | The persistence of learning over time through the storage and retrieval of information. | |
| 289054506 | Flashbulb Memory | A clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event. | |
| 289054507 | Encoding | The processing of information into the memory system. | |
| 289054508 | Storage | The retention of encoded information over time. | |
| 289054509 | Retrieval | The process of getting information out of memory storage. | |
| 289054510 | Sensory Memory | The immediate, intial recording of sensory information in the memory system. | |
| 289054511 | Short Term Memory | Activated memory that holds a few items briefly before the information is stored or forgotten. | |
| 289054512 | Long Term Memory | The relativity permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system. | |
| 289054513 | Automatic Processing | Unconcious encoding of incidental information, such as space, time, and frequency, and of well-learned information, such as word meanings. | |
| 289054514 | Effortful Processing | Encoding that requires attention and concious effort. | |
| 289054515 | Rehearsal | The concious repitition of information, either to maintain it in consciousness or to encode it for storage. | |
| 289054516 | Spacing Effect | The tendancy for distributed study or practice to yield better long-term retention than is achieved through massed study or practice. | |
| 289054517 | Serial Position Effect | Our tendancy to recall best the last and first items in a list. | |
| 289054518 | Visual Encoding | The encoding of picture images. | |
| 289054519 | Acoustic Encoding | The encoding of sound, especially the sound of words. | |
| 289054520 | Semantic Encoding | The encoding of meaning, including the meaning of words. | |
| 289054521 | Imagery | Mental pictures; a powerful aid to effortful processing, especially when combined with semantic encoding. | |
| 289054522 | Mnemonics | Memory aids; especially those techniques that use vivid imagery and organizational devices. | |
| 289054523 | Chunking | Organizing items into familiar, manageable units. Often occurs automatically. | |
| 289054524 | Ionic Memory | A momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli; a photographic or picture-image memory lasting no more than a few tenths of a second | |
| 289054525 | 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. | |
| 289054526 | Long-Term Potentiation | An increase in a synapse's firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation. Believed to be a neural basis for learning and memory. | |
| 289054527 | Amnesia | The loss of memory. | |
| 289054528 | Implicit Memory | Retention independent of concious recollection. | |
| 289054529 | Explicit Memory | Memory of facts and experiences that one can conciously know and declare. | |
| 289054530 | Hippocampus | A neural center located in the limbic system that helps process explicit memories for storage. | |
| 289054531 | Recall | A measure of memory in which the person must retrieve information learned earlier, as on a fill in the blank test. | |
| 294864659 | Recognition | A measure of memory in which the person need only identify items previously learned, as on a multiple-choice test. | |
| 294864660 | Relearning | A memory measure that asesses the amount of time saved when learning material for a second time. | |
| 294864661 | Priming | The activation, often unconsiously, of particular associations in memory. | |
| 294864662 | Deja Vu | That eerie sense that "I've experienced this before." Cues from the current situation may subconsciously trigger retrieval of an earlier experience. | |
| 294864663 | Mood-congruent Memory | the tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with one's current good or bad mood. | |
| 294864664 | Proactive Interference | The disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information. | |
| 294864665 | Retroactive Interference | The disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information. | |
| 294864666 | Repression | In psychonanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anixiety- arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories. | |
| 294864667 | Misinformation Effect | Incorporating misleading information into one's memory in an event. | |
| 294864668 | Source Amnesia | attributing to the wrong source an event we have experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined |
