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Part 1 Theorical Vocab
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AP Psychology
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Anterograde Amnesia
A type of memory loss that occurs when you can't make new ones
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Automatic Processing
Happens automatically without trying to learn
- Implicit Memories
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Chunking
Organizing items into a familiar, managable, unit
Increases working memory
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Cocktail Party Effect
In a nosiey environment, you can selectively put your focus onto one conversation
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Cognition
Perceiving, Recognition, and Reasoning
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Deep Processing
Produces longer-lasting & more accessible memories
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Distributed Practice
A learning strategy where practice is split evenly in short sessions over a long juncture
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Dual Processing
How thoughts can arise in two different ways, or as a result two different processes
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Echoic Memory
Ultra short term memory for auditory listening
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Effortful Processing
Encoding information while being conscious
Requires rehearsal & is improved with attention and motivation
- Explicit Memories
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Eideitc Memory
The ability to recall an image from memory with high precision - for a brief time
Also known as, Photographic Memory
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Elabortive Rehearsal
Attaching numerous associations & making applications
- Relating to prior knowledge
- Deep Processing
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Encoding
Putting information into memory
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Encoding Failure
"One ear, and out the other"
Much of what we sense, we never notice and if we fail to encode, we can't remember
- Age effects this encoding efficiency
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Episodic Memory
A type of long term memory that involves conscious recollection of previous experiences together with their contextin terms of time
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Explicit Memories
The things we know & can declare
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Flashbulb Memories
Memories we never forget because of the emotion involved
*Not perfect - subject to false memories
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Focused Attention
Having the ability to focus on one task for an unlimited amount of time without distraction
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Forgetting Curve
The decline of memory retention in time
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Iconic Memory
A type of sensory memory which stores images for a fraction of a second
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Implicit Memory
Doesn't require the conscious or explicit recollection of past events or information all while the individual is unaware that remembering has occure