Memory
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14 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 encoding | getting info in |
| storage | keeping info in |
| retrieval | getting info back |
| spacing effect | we retain info better when our rehersal is distributed over time |
| serial position effect | when your recall is better for first adn last items, but poor for middle items on a list |
| chunking | acronyms are another way to chunk info and remember it |
| link method | involves forming a mental image of items to be remembered in a way that links them together |
| mnemonics | imagery is at the heart of many memory aids. mnemonic techniques that use vivid imagery in aiding memory. |
| 7±2 | The magical number seven plus or minus two: some limits on our capacity for processing information (1956 ); You should be able to recall 7±2 letters. |
| explicit memory | refers to facts and experiences that one can consciously know and declare. (information is processed from the "top-down") |
| implicit memory | involves learning an action, and the individuals does not know or declare what she knows (information is processed from the "bottom-up") |
| hippocampus | a neural center in the limbic system that processes explicit memories |
| anterograde amnesia | after losing his hippocampus in surgery, patient HM remembers everything before the operation but cannot make new memories |
| method of loci | when you relate a a word to a location or thing |
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