Chapter nine reading notes

term Detailed definition and/or explanation that reflects source

understanding
Flashbulb
Memory

Encoding

Storage

Retrieval

Sensory
memory

Short-term
memory

Long term
memory

Unconscious
processing

Working
Memories

Automatic
Processing

Effortful
Processing

Rehearsal

Spacing effect

Serial position
effect
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term Detailed definition and/or explanation that reflects source

understanding
Visual
encoding

Acoustic
encoding

Semantic
encoding

Imagery

Mnemonics

Chunking

Hierarchies

Iconic
memory

Echoic
memory

Synaptic
changes

Long-term
potential

Stress
hormones
impact on
memory
Amnesia

Storing implicit
memories
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term Detailed definition and/or explanation that reflects source

understanding
Storing explicit
memories

Memory
subsystems

Hippocampus

Cerebellum

Recall

Recognition

Relearning

Retrieval cues

Priming

Context effect

Deja vu

Mood
congruent

“sins of
forgetting”

“sins of
distortion”
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term Detailed definition and/or explanation that reflects source

understanding
Encoding
failure

Storage decay

Retrieval
failure

Proactive
inference

Retroactive
inference

Motivated
forgetting

Repression

Memory
construction

Misinformatio
n effect

Source
amnesia

True vs false
memories

Eyewitness
recall

Repressed vs
constructed
memories
Strategies for
improving
memory
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