Psych Chapt 8
Terms
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copy deck
- temporary or permanent inability to remember
- amnesia
- process of grouping pieces of unrelated information
- chunking
- condition in which unrehearsed or unretrieved information is lost from memory
- decay
- addition of meaning to information to organize it or make it more relevant and hold it in STM
- elaboration
- process of converting input into a form that can be stored in long-term memory
- encoding
- any event that prevents rehearsal or elaboration of information
- interference
- memory of information stored for later use
- long-term memory (LTM)
- mental process responsible for encoding, storage, and retrieval of information
- memory
- searching for and retrieving information from memory
- recall
- identifying something encountered before
- recognition
- repetition of information to hold it in STM
- rehearsal
- process of getting stored inforation through recall or recognition
- retrieval
- memory of information very recently perceived by the senses
- sensory memory
- working memory where information is consciously and actively processed
- short-term memory (STM)
- temporary or permanent retention of information in memory
- storage