Honors Psychology Module 7 Glossary Terms – Flashcards
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Amnesia
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- a type of memory loss brought on my injury, use of drugs, or severe stress
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Chunking
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- the process of grouping, characterizing, or categorizing information to make recall easier
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Confabulation
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- an individual's tendency to fill in the gaps or holes of a memory
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Decay
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- the fading away of memories over a period of time
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Encoding
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- the transformation process in which the nervous system is able to process and save
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Episodic Memory
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- a memory of a specific event in its entirety; like watching a video playback
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Flashbulb Memory
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- a vivid, lasting memory for how one learned about a shocking or surprising event
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Forgetting
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- when information that had been stored in memory can no longer be retrieved or used
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Interference
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- memories that have been blocked due to a specific situation or circumstance
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Procedural Memory
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- a memory or skill acquired from experience
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Recall
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- the reconstruction of information already stored in memory
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Recognition
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- the ability to recognize using information that an individual has already stored in their memory
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Relearning
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- the idea that if you learn information at a young age it will be easier to recall the information at a later age
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Repression
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- a process by which an individual deliberately blocks traumatic memories
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Retrieval
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- the using of information stored in the memory
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Schemas
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- generalized themes used to make sense of surrounding environments
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Semantic Memory
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- general knowledge memories that are acquirred by individuals
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Sensory Memory
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- information that is gathered from the senses; sight, smell, touch for less than a second
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Serial Position Effect
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- the ability to recall information based on the position of the material; first to last in a list
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Short Term Memory
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- the limited capacity of items to hold in memory and only with repetition or rehearsal; limited to seven items ( + or - 2)
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Storage
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- the maintenance of information while kept in memory
