Memory

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How do psychologists define memory?
The process of encoding, storing and retrieving infomation.
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Define capacity in terms of memory
The amount of information stored.
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define duration in terms of memory
The length of time something is stored.
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How many ways are there to retrieve a memory?
3
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What is the sensory store?
Information taken in from sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch.
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What is the Capacity of short term memory?
7(+/-2)
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what is the main way information is stored in the short term memory?
Acoustic
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What is retrograde Amnesia?
A condition where people forget incidents and events which happened shortly before an injury to the brain.
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What is anterograde Amnesia?
The inability to remember new information.
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Words remembered at the beginning of a list are a result of the...
Primacy effect.
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