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Storage
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The retention of encoded memory over time
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Flashbulb memory
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A clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event
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Sensory memory
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The immediate, very brief recording of sensory info in memory system
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Chunking
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Organizing items into familiar, manageable units; often occurs automatically
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Echoic memory
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A momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli if attention is elsewhere, sounds and words can still be recalled within 3/4 seconds
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Characteristics of long-term memory
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Relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system. includes knowledge, skills, and experiences
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Implicit memory
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Retention independent of conscious recollection
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Explicit memory
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Memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and 'declare'
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Recognition
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Measure of memory in which the person need only identify items previously learned, as on a multiple-choice test
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Context effects
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When you are back in the place where you experienced something, it primes your retrieval cues
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Encoding failure
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Unable to get information into memory system
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Storage failure
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Inability to retain encoded info. over time
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Proactive interference
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The disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information
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Retrieval failure
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Inability to get information out of memory storage
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Improving memory
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Stdy repeatdly, spendtime actively thinking about material, make material meaningful, use pneums, activate retrvl cu's, min intrfernce
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