AP Psych 7-2 Vocab

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Long Term Potentiation

increased efficiency of potential neural firing

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Flashbulb Memory

perceived clarity of memories of surprising, significant events

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Implicit Memory

the unconscious retention and retrieval of information without conscious awareness

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Explicit Memory

retention of facts and experiences that one can consciously know

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Recall

retrieving information that is not currently in your conscious awareness but that was learned at an earlier time

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Recognition

identifying items previously learned

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Priming

the activation, often unconsciously, of particular associations in memory

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Deja Vu

that eerie sense that 'I've experienced this before'

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Mood - Congruent Memory

the tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with one's current good or bad mood

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Retroactive Interference

when new learning disrupts recall of old information

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Proactive Interference

when prior learning disrupts your recall of new information

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Repression

the exclusion of distressing memories, thoughts, or feelings from the conscious mind

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Misinformation Effect

occurs when misleading information distorts one's memory of an event

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Source Amnesia

faulty memory for how, when, or where information was learned or imagined

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Anterograde Amnesia

Loss of the ability to form or retrieve memories after an injury or traumatic event

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Retrograde Amnesia

Loss of memory for events that preceded a head injury or trauma.

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Constructive Processing

Reorganizing or updating memories based on logic, reasoning, or new information.

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Curve of Forgetting

a graph showing the amount of information remembered after varying lengths of time.

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Declarative Memory

A part of LTM containing specific information that can be stated or declared.

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Episodic Memory

A subset of declarative memory that contains memories of past experiences like 'episodes' from your life.

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Procedural Memory

LTM of conditioned responses and learned skills.

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Memory Cue

A stimulus associated with a memory often enhances retrieval.

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Memory Decay

The fading or weakening of memories over time.

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Network Model

A model that views memory as an organized system of linked information.

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Memory Redintegration

the process of recalling a whole memory by being reminded of just a small part of it

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Next-in-Line Effect

failure to encode what the person ahead of us just said because we are focusing on what we will say.

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Tip-of-the-Tongue Phenomenon

Feeling like a memory is available, but a person is temporarily unable to retrieve the information.

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