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100What is Sensory Memory?
Holds full sensory information for up to 2 seconds.
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100What is memory?
Mental process responsible for encoding, storage, and retrieval of information.
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100What is visual?
Stimuli as pictures.
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100What is Decay?
Gradually losing information from memory when it is not rehearsed,elaborated or retrieved.
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100What is Encoding?
Putting information into a form that the memory can use.
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200What is Long Term Memory?
Has an unlimited capacity.
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200What is State Dependence?
Matching mood when you encode and retrieve information helps.
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200What is acoustic?
Information as sequences of sound.
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200What is Interference?
Something that prevents rehearsal or elaboration of information.
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200What is Recognition?
Uses retrieval cues to help you find information.
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300What is relatively permanent?
How long information is held in long term memory.
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300What is elaboration?
Adding meaning to information to organize it or make it relevant, works better than rehearsal.
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300What is Chunking
Grouping pieces of unrelated information to increase the amount of information that can be held in STM.
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300What is the Primacy Effect?
Says it is easier to remember the first 2 or 3 words in a list.
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300What is Storage?
Retention of information in memory.
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400What is Short Term Memory
Stage that can hold 5-9 unites of information at one time.
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400What is Depth of Processing Theory?
Theory that states that the best type of processing inot LTM is semantic.
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400What is Mnemonics?
Methods for improving your memory such as acrostics and acronyms.
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400What is Procedural memory?
Implicit memory or knowing how to do something.
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400What is Recall?
Searching for and finding information from memory without much help
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500What is 18 seconds?
How long unrehearsed information stays in Short Term Memory.
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500What is Context Dependence?
The ability to retrieve a memory more easily in the same environment in which it was learned.
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500What is Constructive memory?
Memory that can be incorrect, uses generalized knowledge to fill in gaps in the information you encoded and retrieved.
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500What is Recency Effect?
Remembering the words at the end of a list.
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500What is Retrieval?
Process of getting stored information through recall or recognition.
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