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| The capacity to store and retrieve information. | ||
| The intial processing of information that leads to a representation in memory. | ||
| Retention over time of encoded material. | ||
| Rocovery at a later time, of stored information. | ||
| Memory system which records lots of sensory information for a very short period of time. (seconds) | ||
| Visual momory system which stores "icons" (visuals) for about one second. | ||
| Auditory memory system that stores sound for as long as 5 to 10 seconds. | ||
| Touch memory system. | ||
| A built-in memory mechanism that allows us to focus our thinking abilities on a small amount of information. | ||
| 7+/-2 Rule short-term memory. | ||
| Continuous repating of information in order to remember it. | ||
| Process of reconfiguring items by grouping them into larger patterns. | ||
| Technique during storage where we memorize elaborate, detailed thoughts along with the items to be learned. | ||
| Storing information be associating it with familiar, precious stored information. | ||
| The storehouse of all info that has been acquired from sensory and short-term memory. | ||
| Memories of specific events that you have personally experienced. | ||
| Generic category memories. | ||
| Reproducing information to which you were previously exposed. | ||
| Relilzation that a certain stimulus is one you have seen or heard before. | ||
| Stimulus "helpers" that aid in recall or recognition. | ||
| Memories emerge most efficiently when the context of retreival matches the context of learning. | ||
| Your memory process that allows a moment by moment fluidity of thought. | ||
| Retained information without conscious recollection. | ||
| Memories of facts and experiences that you consciously know. | ||
| "Saying" and recording information. | ||
| Forming a mental picture in the mind and then estimating a response. | ||
| The coordination of sensory information visual spatial and long-term memory. | ||
| Sometimes memories compete and complicate the process of retrieval. | ||
| Information acquired in the interferes with learning of new information. | ||
| Acquisation of new information makes it harder to remember older memories. | ||
| Failure of memory over time. (short-term memory) | ||
| Memory can no longer be formed after some form of damage. | ||
| Access to memory formed before an injury is denied or limited. | ||
| OUr tendency to recall the first and last items in a list. | ||
| First few items are well recalled. | ||
| Last few Items are well recalled. | ||
| Memories can be recalled more easily if they are remembered "distinctively" | ||
| A feeling or sensation that we know the information (its in our memory) but we can't access it. | ||
| Mental representation of a category. | ||
| A non-specific "average" image of your experiences in a certain category. | ||
| Clusters of knowledge or information regarding objects, people, situations and emotions that help us understand something. | ||
| Indirect memories, not remembered directly, but reconstructed from "common sense". | ||
| Simplify the story or memory. | ||
| Highlighting or overemphasizing certain details. | ||
| Change the details to better fit the participants own background of knowledge. | ||
| The ability to witness an event and accuratly report what you've seen or heard. | ||
| Information presented after an event that can alter or impair a memory. |
