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What is the term for the capacity to retain and retrieve information?
memory
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What is the term for measuring memory that involves the ability to retrieve information which has been learned earlier?
recall
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What is the term for measuring memory that involves the ability to identify previously encountered information?
recognition
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What is the term for measuring memory in which the effort is saved in having learned something before?
relearning
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What model of memory states that memory and mind are like a computer?
information processing model
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What is the term for how to put information in your brain and retain, store, and retrieve it?
encoding
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What is the term for comparing to information that is already in our long-term memory and then it goes to long-term memory or is lost?
pattern recognition
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What content of long-term memory is the act of consciously or intentionally retrieving past experiences?
explicit memory
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What content of long-term memory states that past experiences influence later behavior and performance, people are not consciously aware that they are remembering?
implicit memory
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What kind of memories are facts, rules, concepts, and general knowledge?
semantic memories
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What kind of memories are experienced events and personal recollections?
episodic memories
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What is the term for something that increase identification of objects/words based on recent exposure to other stimuli?
priming
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What is the term for memory that involves motor skills and knowing "how" to do things?
procedural
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What is the term for the fact that we tend to remember beginning pieces of a list?
primacy effect
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What is the term for the fact that we tend to remember the end pieces of a list?
recency effect
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What is the term for the fact that numerous mention increases memory?
frequency
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What is the term for creating visual images to represent words/concepts to remember things?
visual imagery
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What is the term for matching up existing visual images with concepts?
method of loci
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What is the term for systematic strategies for remembering information? (memory tricks or useful tools to aid memory)
mnemonics
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What is the term for the fact that memory is enhanced by using both semantic and visual codes since either can lead to recall?
dual-coding theory
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What is the term for a dramatic positive or negative memory?
flashbulb memory
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What is the term for the ability to recall when, where, and how information was acquired?
source memory
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What is the term for assigning a memory to the wrong source?
memory misattribution
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What is the term for when we don't "remember" it in the first place?
ineffective encoding
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What is the term for the belief that memories fade with time?
decay theories
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What is the term for when new information interferes with old information?
retroactive interference
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What is the term for when old information interferes with new information?
proactive information
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What is the term for when painful memories are blocked from consciousness?
motivated forgetting
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What is the term for when external information helps memory?
retrieval cues
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What is the term for the fact that a cue can help as a reminder when it recreates the specific way that information/memory was encoded?s
encoding specificity
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What kind of amnesia involves a deficit in recalling events that happened before the onset of the amnesia?
retrograde amnesia
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What kind of amnesia involves a deficit in learning after the onset of the disorder?
anterograde amnesia
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What kind of amnesia includes a range of cognitive impairments including memory loss following an accident?
post-traumatic amnesia
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What kind of amnesia involves the inability to remember things from the first years of life?
childhood amnesia
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What is the term for a clinical condition in which the individual loses cognitive abilities and functioning to the degree in which it impedes normal activity and social relationships?
dementia
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What is the term for the loss of ability to use language?
aphasia
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What is the term for the loss of ability to carry out coordinated body movement?
apraxia
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What is the term for the loss of ability to recognize familiar objects and faces?
agnosia
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