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The process by which we recollect prior experiences.
What is Memory?
The first memory process, where information is translated into a form that can be stored.
What is encoding?
The gradual fading or loss of memory over time, particularly in relation to information that is not actively rehearsed or retrieved.
What is Decay?
The maintenance of encoded information over a period of time.
What is Storage?
The process of recalling information from memory storage.
What is Retrieval?
The process of actively retrieving informatin from memory storage without the help of cues, such as on an essay test.
What is Recall?
A memory strategy that involvers organizing information into smaller, meaningful units to improve retention.
What are Mnemonics?
An observable even or occurrence.
What is a phenomenon?
The reacquisition of knowledge that was once known.
What is Relearning?
A memory strategy that involves organizing information into smaller, meaningful units to improve retention.
What is chunking?
The repetition of new information to prevent it from being forgotten.
What is Maintenance rehearsal?
The ability to identify previously learned information, such as on a multiple-choice test.
What is Recognition?
The transfer of feelings or behavior from their original source to a less threatening person or object.
What is displacement?
The psychological process of remembering skills and habits, such as riding a bike or tying your shoes, that is independent of conscious recollection.
What are Implicit memories?
Memories that are more easily retrieved when a person is in the same emotional or physiological state as when the memory was originally encoded.
What are state-dependent memories?
These memory codes represent information in terms of its meaning.
What are Semantic memories?
The inability to form new memories AFTER a traumatic event or brain injury.
What is Anterograde amnesia?
What are Episodic memories?
The inability to retrieve memories from before the age of 2 to 4 years.
What is Infantile Amnesia?
The inability to recall events or information that occurred BEFORE the onset of amnesia.
What is Retrograde amnesia?