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| 8717773641 | Ebbinghaus Curve | Immediate drop in retention, then levels off. | 0 | |
| 8717811804 | Massed Practice | Studying for a long period the day before. | 1 | |
| 8717823327 | Distributed Practice | Practicing daily for short periods of time. | 2 | |
| 8717840675 | Serial Postion Effect | The tendency of a person to recall the first and last items in a list middle is the worst. | 3 | |
| 8717863535 | Testing Effect | Testing an indivual's memory makes the memory stronger and easier to retrieve. | 4 | |
| 8717874715 | Primacy Effect | The tendency for the 1st items presented in a series to be remembered better or more easily. | 5 | |
| 8717890436 | Recency Effect | This is the principal that the most recently presented items or experiences will most likely be remembered best. | 6 | |
| 8717924507 | Iconic Memory | Being able to visualize something that you've seen and being able to describe it. | 7 | |
| 8717934764 | Echoic Memory | Sounds that remind you of a memory. | 8 | |
| 8717955786 | Long Term Potention (LTP) | A persistent increase in synaptic strength following high frequency stimulation of a chemical synapse. | 9 | |
| 8717973220 | Flashbulb memory | A clear memory of a emotionally significant moment or event. | 10 | |
| 8717981757 | Implicit Memory | Retention independent of conscious recollection. This uses past experiences to remember things without thinking of them. | 11 | |
| 8718050098 | Explicit Memory | Memories of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and declare. | 12 | |
| 8718064018 | Priming | The activation often unconsciously of particular associations in memory. | 13 | |
| 8718081220 | State Dependent Memory | Information is better remembered when someone is in the same state as they were in the memory. | 14 | |
| 8718111379 | Mood Congruent Memory | When humans store memories they do not only store the event but they also store a memory of the mood they were in at the time. | 15 | |
| 8718140814 | Proactive Interference | The disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information. (Old gets mixed with the new) (Cell phone) | 16 | |
| 8718153744 | Retroactive Interference | The disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information. (New gets mixed with old) (Ex-boyfriend) | 17 | |
| 8718179444 | Misinformation Effect | Incorporating misleading information into one's memory of an event. | 18 | |
| 8718277396 | Concepts | A mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people. | 19 | |
| 8719960333 | Prototypes | A mental image or best example of a category. | 20 | |
| 8719972084 | Availability Heurstics | What the media or what is being shown to you causes you think that way. | 21 | |
| 8720004785 | Representative Heurstics | Stereotypes about the topic. | 22 | |
| 8720305552 | Confirmation Bias | A tendency to search for information that supports our perceptions and ignore or distort contradictory evidence. | 23 | |
| 8720322735 | Fixation | The inability to see a problem from a fresh prospective. This impedes problem solving. | 24 | |
| 8720336764 | Mental Set | A tendency to approach a problem in one particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past. | 25 | |
| 8718272217 | Functional fixedness | A tendency to see objects as only working a particular way. | 26 | |
| 8720367671 | Belief Perseverance | The tendency to cling on to beliefs even after they were proven wrong. | 27 | |
| 8720401663 | Convert Thinking | Narrows the available problem solutions to determine the single best solution . | 28 | |
| 8720422621 | Divergent Thinking | Expands the number of possible problem solutions. | 29 | |
| 8720431971 | Framing | The way an issue is posed; how an issue is framed can significantly affect decisions and judgements. | 30 |