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| 128398092 | Memory | The persistence of learning over time through the storage and retrieval of information | |
| 128398093 | Flashbulb Memory | A clear memory of an emotionally significant moment of event | |
| 128398094 | Encoding | The processing of information into the memory system | |
| 128398095 | Storage | The retention of encoded information over time | |
| 128398096 | Retrieval | The process of getting information of memory storage | |
| 128398097 | Sensory Memory | The immediate, initial recording of sensory information in the memory system | |
| 128398098 | Short-term Memory | Activated memory that holds a few items briefly such asthe seven digits of a phone number when dialing, before the information is stored or forgotten | |
| 128398099 | Long-term Memory | The relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system | |
| 128398100 | Working Memory | A similiar concept that focuses more on the processing of briefly stored information | |
| 128398101 | Automatic Processing | Unconscious encoding of incidental information, and a well-learned information | |
| 128398102 | Effortful processing | Encoding that requires attention and conscious effort | |
| 128398103 | Rehearsal | The conscious repetition of information, either to maintain it in consciousness of to encode it for storage | |
| 128398104 | Spacing Effect | The tendency for distributed study or practice to yield bettwe long-term retention than is achieved through massed study or pactice | |
| 128398105 | Serial Position Effect | Our tendency to recall best the last and first item in a list | |
| 128398106 | Sematic Encoding | The encoding of meaning | |
| 128398107 | Acoustic Encoding | The encoding of sound, especially the sound of words | |
| 128398108 | Visual Encoding | The encoding of picture images | |
| 128398109 | Imagery | Mental pictures, a powerful aid to effortful processing | |
| 128398110 | Mnemonics | Memory aids | |
| 128398111 | Chunking | Organizing items into familiar, manageable units | |
| 128398112 | Iconic Memory | A momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli | |
| 128398113 | Echoic Memory | Momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli | |
| 128398114 | Long-term Potentiation (LTP) | An increase in a synapse's firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation | |
| 128398115 | Amnesia | The loss of memory | |
| 128398116 | Implicit Memory | Retention without conscious recollection | |
| 128398117 | Explicit Memory | Memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and "declare" | |
| 128398118 | Hippocampus | A neural center located in the limbic system that helps process explicit memories for storage | |
| 128398119 | Recall | A measure of memory in which the person must retrieve information learned earlier | |
| 128398120 | Recognition | A measure of memory in which the person need only to identify items previously learned | |
| 128398121 | Relearning | A memory measure that assesses the amount of time saved when learning material for a second time | |
| 128398122 | Priming | The activation, often unconsciously, of particular associations in memory | |
| 128398123 | Deja Vu | That eerie sense that "I've experienced this before" | |
| 128398124 | Mood-congruent Memory | The tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with one's current good or bad mood | |
| 128398125 | Proactive Interference | The disruptive effort of prior learning on the recall of new information | |
| 128398126 | Retroactive Interference | The disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information | |
| 128398127 | Repression | In psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness | |
| 128398128 | Misinformation Effect | Incorporating misleading information into one's memory of an event | |
| 128398129 | Source Amnesia | Attributing to the wrong source an event that we have experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined |
