AP Psych Vocabulary #7 - "Memory"

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Semantic Encoding

encoding of an experience or facts based on its meaning.

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Acoustic Encoding

encoding of sounds

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Visual Processing

encoding of picture images

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Parallel Processing

encoding on multiple levels simultaneously

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Effortful Processing

consciously attempting to remember something[studying, flashcards, repetition]

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Explicit[Declarative] Memories

facts & experience we can consciously recall. “stuff we know”.

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Automatic Processing

memories that become processed without effort.

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Implicit[Nondeclarative] Memories

remembering how to do an action without thinking about it. “Muscle memory”.

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Sensory Memory

the immediate, initial recording of sensory info in the memory system.

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10

Iconic Memory

visual

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Echoic Memory

Memory for hearing. Slightly longer than iconic.

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Cocktail Party Phenomenon

the ability to tune out other conversations as noise & focus on the one we want to hear.

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Short-Term Memory

hold a few items briefly. limited in duration & capacity.

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Visual Short-Term Memory

primarily for faces.

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Central Executive

short term memory processes everything that we are currently thinking about with everything we already know.

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Shallow Processing

emphasis on the physical structurehgb

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