AP Psychology Memory and Cognition

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Memory in which people recall events in great detail is called

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Flashbulb Memory

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Organization of items into familiar or manageable units

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Chunking

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What type of memory is involved when Jim forgets a phone number he just called? Options: Short-Term Memory, Long Term Memory, Visual Memory, Echoic Memory

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Short-Term Memory

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The process of filing information into your memory is...

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Encoding

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Our long-term memory capacity is

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Essentially limitless

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______ involves maintaing encoded information in memory over time.

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Storage

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What is it called when new information impairs the retention of previously learned information?

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Retroactive Interference

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Disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information (Forward Acting)

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Proactive Interactive

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The idea that we remember the first and last items in a list the best.

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serial-position effect

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the process of getting information out of memory storage.

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retrieval