Part 1 Theorical Vocab

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Anterograde Amnesia

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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, unitIncreases 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

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