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Memory
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Retention of information over time
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Suggestive memory techniques
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Procedures that encourage patients to recall memories that may or may not have taken place
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Memory illusion
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False but subjectively compelling memory (can be fooled by representative heuristic)
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The three-memory model
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1. sensory memory becomes short term memory (memories are lost from both stages) 2. short-term memory is rehearsed and becomes long term memory 3. long term memory can go back to short term memory
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Span
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How much information a memory system can retain
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Duration
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Length of time for which a memory system can retain information
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Sensory memory
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Brief storage of perceptual information before it is passed to short-term memory
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Iconic memory
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Visual sensory memory
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Echoic memory
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Auditory sensory memory
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Short-term memory
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Memory system that retains information for limited durations (no longer than 20 seconds
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Decay
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Fading of information from memory
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Interference
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Loss of information from memory because of competition from additional incoming information
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Retroactive inhibition
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Interference with retention of old information due to acquisition of new information
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Proactive inhibition
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Interference with acquisition of new information due to previous learning of information
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Magic number
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Span of memory according to George Miller, 5+(-) 2
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