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| 62593100 | Memory | The persistence of learning over time through the storage and retrieval of information. | |
| 62593101 | Flashbulb memory | A clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event. | |
| 62593102 | Encoding | The processing of information into the memory system. | |
| 62593103 | Storage | The retention of encoded information over time. | |
| 62593104 | Retrieval | The process of getting information out of memory storage. | |
| 62593105 | Sensory memory | The immediate, very brief recording of sensory information in the memory system. | |
| 62593106 | Short term memory | activated memory that holds a few items briefly, before information is stored or forgotten. | |
| 62593107 | Long term memory | Relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system. | |
| 62593108 | Working memory | A newer understanding of short-term memory that involves conscious, active processing of incoming auditory and visual-spatial information, and of information retrieved from long-term memory. | |
| 62593109 | Automatic processing | Unconscious encoding of incidental information, such as space, time, and frequency, and of well-learned information, such as word meanings. | |
| 62593110 | Effortful processing | Encoding that requires attention and conscious effort. | |
| 62593111 | Rehearsal | The conscious repetition of information, either to maintain it in consciousness or to encode it for storage. | |
| 62593112 | Spacing effect | The tendency for distributed study or practice to yield bettwe long-term retention than is achieved through massed study or practice. | |
| 62593113 | Serial position effect | Our tendency to recall bast the last and first items in a list. | |
| 62593114 | Visual encoding | The encoding of picture images. | |
| 62593115 | Acoustic encoding | The encoding of sound, especially the sound of words. | |
| 62593116 | Semantic encoding | The encoding of meaning, including the meaning of words. | |
| 62593117 | Imagery | Mental pictures | |
| 62593118 | Mnemonics | Memory aids. | |
| 62593119 | Chunking | Organizing terms into familiar, manageable units; often occurs automatically. | |
| 62593120 | Iconic memory | a momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli; a photographic or picture-image memory lasting no more than a few tenths of a second | |
| 62593121 | 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. | |
| 62593122 | 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. | |
| 62593123 | Amnesia | The loss of memory. | |
| 62593124 | Implicit memory | Retention independent of conscious recollection. | |
| 62593125 | Explicit memory | Memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and "declare". | |
| 62593126 | Hippocampus | A neural center that is located in the limbic system and helps process explicit memories for storage. | |
| 62593127 | Recall | A measure of memory in which the person must retrieve information learned earlier, as on a fill-in-the-blank test. | |
| 62593128 | Recognition | A measure of memory in which the person need only identify items previously learned, as on a multiple choice test. | |
| 62593129 | Relearning | A memory measure that assesses the amount of time saved when learning material for a second time. | |
| 62593130 | Priming | The activation, often unconsciously, of particular associations in memory. | |
| 62593131 | Deja vu | The eerie sense that "I've experienced this before". Cues from the current situation may subconsciously trigger retrieval of an earlier experience. | |
| 62593132 | Mood congruent memory | The tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with your current mood (good or bad). | |
| 62593133 | Proactive interference | The disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information. | |
| 62593134 | Retroactive interference | The disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information. | |
| 62593135 | Repression | In psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness. | |
| 62593136 | Misinformation effect | Incorporating misleading information into one's memory of an event. | |
| 62593137 | Source amnesia | Attributing to the wrong source an event we have experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined (also called source misattribution). |
