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Deep Processing

Similar to elaboratiave rehearsal; connecting semantics of a new word to LTM which builds a strong memory trace that is resistant to memory decay.

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Anterograde Amnesia

An inability to form new memories

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George Miller

Found that short term memory has the capacity of about 7 (+/- 2) items.

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Retrieval Failure

the inability to recall long-term memories because of inadequate or missing retrieval cues

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Semantic Memory

a network of associated facts and concepts that make up our general knowledge of the world (fact memories)




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Shallow Processing

Phonetic memory building which leads to a fragile memory trace that is susceptible to rapid decay. (Focusing on how to say the word).

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Retrograde Amnesia

loss of memory from the point of some injury or trauma backwards, or loss of memory for the past

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Motivated Forgetting

forgetting that occurs when something is so painful or anxiety-laden that remembering it is intolerable

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Atkinson-Shiffrin Model

A model for describing memory in which there are three distinguishable kinds of memory (sensory, short term, long term) through which info passes in a sequential way as it is processed.

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Distributed Practice

spacing the study of material to be remembered by including breaks between study periods

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Cerebellum

Brain part that stores implicit memories.

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Elizabeth Loftus

Her research on memory construction and the misinformation effect created doubts about the accuracy of eye-witness testimony

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Primacy Effect

tendency to remember words at the beginning of a list especially well

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Recency Effect

tendency to remember words at the end of a list especially well

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Deja Vu

that eerie sense that "I've experienced this before." Cues from the current situation may subconsciously trigger retrieval of an earlier experience.

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State-dependent memory

Long-term memory retrieval is best when a person's physiological state at the time of encoding and retrieval of the information is the same.

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Hermann Ebbinghaus

the first person to study memory scientifically and systematically; used nonsense syllables and recorded how many times he had to study a list to remember it well

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Context dependent memory

The theory that information learned in a particular situation or place is better remembered when in that same situation or place.

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George Sperling

Psychologist associated with early research into the capacity of sensory memory.

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