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Chapter 7 Vocabulary Anterograde amnesia occurs when a person loses memories for events that occur after the injury. Attention involves focusing awareness on a narrowed range of stimuli or events. Chunk is a group of familiar stimuli stored as a single unit. Connectionist or parallel distributed processing (PDP) models assume that cognitive processes depend on patterns of activation in highly interconnected computational networks that resemble neural networks. Consolidation is a hypothetical process involving the gradual conversion of information into durable memory codes stored in long-term memory. Decay theory proposes that forgetting occurs because memory traces fade with time. Declarative memory system handles factual information. Dual coding theory