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| 50912721 | memory | the persistence of learing over time through the storage and retrieval of information | 0 | |
| 50912722 | flashbulb memory | a clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event | 1 | |
| 50912723 | encoding | the processing of information into the memory system-for example, by extracting meaning | 2 | |
| 50912724 | storage | the retention of encoded information over time | 3 | |
| 50912725 | retrieval | the process of getting information out of memory storage | 4 | |
| 50912726 | sensory memory | the immediate, very brief recording of sensory information in the memory system | 5 | |
| 50912727 | short-term memory | activated memory that holds a few items briefly, such as the seven digits of a phone number while dialing, before the information is stored or forgotten | 6 | |
| 50912728 | long-term memory | the relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory; includes knowledge, skills, and experiences | 7 | |
| 50912729 | working memory | a newer understanding of short term memory that involves concious, active processing of incomming auditory and visual-spacial information, and of information retrieved from long-term memory | 8 | |
| 50912730 | automatic processing | unconcious encoding of incidental information, such as space, time, and frequency, and of well-learned information, such as word meanings | 9 | |
| 50912731 | effortful processing | encoding that requires attention and concious effort | 10 | |
| 50912732 | rehearsel | the concious repetition of information, either to maintain it in conciousness or to encode it for storage | 11 | |
| 50912733 | spacing effect | the tendency for distributed study or practice to yield better long term attention than is achieved through massed study or practice | 12 | |
| 50912734 | serial position effect | our tendency to recall best the first and last items in the list | 13 | |
| 50912735 | visual encoding | the encoding of picture images | 14 | |
| 50912736 | acoustic encoding | the encoding of sounds, especially the sound of words | 15 | |
| 50912737 | semantic encoding | the encoding of meaning, including the meaning of words | 16 | |
| 50912738 | imagery | mental pictures; a powerful aid to effortful processing, especially when combined with semantic encoding | 17 | |
| 50912739 | mnemonics | memory aids, especially those techniques that use vivid imagery and organizational devices | 18 | |
| 50912740 | chunking | organizing items into familiar manageable units; often occurs automatically | 19 | |
| 50912741 | 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 | 20 | |
| 50912742 | echoic memory | a momentary sensory memory of auditory stumuli; if attention is elsewhere, sounds and words can still be recalled within three or four seconds | 21 | |
| 50912743 | long-term potentiation(LTP) | an increase in a synapse's firing potential after brief rapid stimulation; belived to be a neural basis for learning and memory | 22 | |
| 50912744 | amnesia | the loss of memory | 23 | |
| 50912745 | implicit memory | retention independent of concious recollection; procedural memory | 24 | |
| 50912746 | explicit memory | memory of facts and experiences that one can conciously know and "declare"; declarative memory | 25 | |
| 50912747 | hipppocampus | a neural center that os located in the limbic system and helps process explicit memories for storage | 26 | |
| 50912748 | recall | a measure of memory in which the person must retrieve information learned earlier, as on a fill-in-the-blank test | 27 | |
| 50912749 | recognition | a measure of memory in which the person need only identify items previously learned, as on a multiple-choice test | 28 | |
| 50912750 | relearning | a memory measure that assesses the amount of time saved when learning material for a second time | 29 | |
| 50912751 | priming | the activation, often unconciously, of particular associations in memory. SPOT SPOT SPOT What do you do at a green light? | 30 | |
| 50912752 | deja vu | that eerie sense that "I've experienced this before"; Cues from the current situation may subconciously trigger retrieval of an earlier experience | 31 | |
| 50912753 | mood-congruent memory | the tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with one's current good or bad mood | 32 | |
| 50912754 | proactive interference | the disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information | 33 | |
| 50912755 | retroactive interference | the disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information | 34 | |
| 50912756 | repression | in psychoanalytic theory, the basic deffense mechanism that banishes from conciousness anxiety-arrousing thoughts, feelings, and memories | 35 | |
| 50912757 | misinformation effect | incorporating misinformation into one's memory of an event | 36 | |
| 50912758 | source amnesia | attributing to the wrong source an event we have experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined; also called source misattribution | 37 |
