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This process occurs when newly learned information interferes with and impedes the recall of previously learned information.

What is retroactive interference?
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This effect results in increased recall for items presented at the beginning of a list.
What is the primacy effect?
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This level of category are maximally distinctive for most people (non-experts), and appear to be psychologically privaledged. 
What are basic level categories?
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This hypothesis explains that one word (of a pair) is easier to remember because concrete nouns create images that other words can “hang onto”.


What is the conceptual-peg hypothesis?
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These type of studies show that people access ambiguous words based on the meaning dominance of each definition of the word.
What are lexical ambiguity studies?
200
In this type of rehearsal, information is repeated over and over, but tends not to make it into long-term memory.  
What is maintenance rehearsal?
200
Damage to this area of the brain often results in anterograde amnesia, but does generally not affect short-term memory. 
What is the hippocampus?
200
This approach to categorization compares an item to a mentally-stored average representation of all category members encountered in the past.
What is the prototype approach?
200
This type of measure times how long participants take to complete a task, e.g. identify whether a 3D object is the same or different at increasing degrees of rotation. 
What is mental chronometry?
200

"The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families." is an example of this type of sentence.

What are garden path sentences?
300
We are not usually aware of these types of memories, which can be established though classical conditioning or priming. 
What are implicit memories?
300
This type of memory is for general knowledge such as facts and concepts, and shows a double dissociation from episodic memory.
What is semantic memory?
300
This quality of semantic networks results from storing shared properties at higher level nodes, which are "inherited" by lower-level items. 
What is cognitive economy?
300
If we fail to shave half our face, or eat food from only one side of our plate, we may have this cognitive impairment. 
What is unilateral neglect?
300
This type of inference allows readers to make connection between objects and people in different phrases, such as: "Julia was a famous chef. She was known for her TV cooking show."
What are anaphoric inferences?
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Information in this type of memory comes from bottom-up stimulation, and is only held for seconds (or even less)!
What is sensory memory?
400
This phenomena describes increased recall for events that occurred between the ages of 10 and 30.

What is the Reminiscence Bump?

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These types of cells are activated when we perform an action, but also when we observe someone else perform the same action.
What are mirror neurons?
400
These types of neurons respond to both an actual image, and to our cognitive representation of images in the absence of bottom-up (visual) stimuli. 
What are imagery neurons?
400
This type of conversational "contract" includes both given and new information, which helps to establish shared knowledge between conversational partners. 
What is the given-new contract?
500
If we present a list of numbers to a participant, but delay recall for 30 seconds, we often see a decrease in this effect. 
What is the recency effect?
500

This process results in unconscious plagiarism of another’s work due to a lack of recognition of its original source .


What is cryptoamnesia?
500
This approach to categorization has the limitation that not all members of a category posses the same features. For example, not all birds can fly. 
What is the definitional approach?
500
This school of thought in psychology branded the study of visual imagery as "unproductive" because visual images are the result of introspection and therefore impossible to scientifically verify. 
What is the Behaviourist movement?
500
This hypothesis states that language influences thought, and that differences between languages result in differences in cognition. 
What is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?