| A | B |
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| Long-term memory | Large-cap. memory containing memories that are dec. old, in addition to memories that arrived sev. min. ago. |
| Episodic memory | Memory for events that happened to people; the memories describe episodes in life. |
| Procedural memory | Memory about how to do something. |
| Encoding | Initial acquisition of information. During this, information is placed into storage. |
| Retrieval | The proc. of locating & accessing info in one's memory. |
| Depth-of-Processing-Approach | The proposal that meaningful kinds of info. processing lead to more permanent retention than shallow, sensory kinds of processing. |
| Maintenance Rehearsal | The process of cycling information through memory by merely repeating the stimulus silently to oneself. |
| Elaborative Rehearsal | The process of cycling information through memory, which requires a deeper, more meaningful analysis of the stimulus. |
| Distinctiveness | In memory recall, the term dexcribing a stimulus that is different from all other memory traces. |
| Elaboration | A processing style in memory acquisition that requires rich processing in terms of meaning. It is especially useful in enhancing memory when emphasizing similarities and relationships among items. |
