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| Memory | the storage and retrieval of what has been learned or experienced |
| Encoding | placing or storing information such as images, Events, or sounds in memory by making mental representations so the nervous system can process it |
| Storage | the process of placing encoded information into relatively permanent mental storage for later recall |
| Retrieval | the process of obtaining information that has been stored in memory |
| Sensory memory | very brief memory storage immediately following initial stimulation of a receptor |
| Short term memory | memory that is limited in capacity to about seven items for a short period of time |
| Maintenance rehearsal | a system for remembering that involves repeating information to one self without attempting to find meaning in it |
| Chunking | combining separate items of information into a larger unit, or chunk, and them remembering chunks of information rather than an individual item |
| Semantic memory | a type of declarative memory consisting of factual knowledge of language, including its rules, words, and meanings |
| Episodic memory | a memory of a specific experienced event in one’s life, including time of occurrence |
| Declarative memory | memory of facts or event such as scenes, stories, words, conversations, faces, or daily events that can be called forth consciously as needed |
| Procedural memory | memory of learned skills and procedures that doesn’t not require conscious recollection |
| Recognition | the type of memory retrieval in which a person is required to identify an object, idea, or situation as on he or she has or has not experienced before |
| Recall | the type of memory retrieval in which a person reconstructs previously learned material without the aid of or with very few external cues |
| Reconstructive processes | the alteration of a recalled memory that may be simplified, enriched, or distorted, depending on an individual’s experiences, attitudes, or inferences |
| Confabulation | the act of filling in memory with statements that make sense but that may be untrue |
| Schemas | an idea or mental framework a person uses to organize and interpret information and make sense of the world |
| Eidetic memory | the ability to remember with great accuracy visual information on the basis of short term exposure |
| Decay | fading away of memory over time |
| Interference | the process that occurs when new information appears in short term memory and replaces what was already there |
| Elaborative rehearsal | a memory device that creates a meaningful link between new information and material that is already known |
| Mnemonic devices | techniques of memorizing information by forming vivid associations or images, which facilitate recall and decrease forgetting |
