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Cards In This Set
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What is an unconditioned stimulus?
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A stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers a response.
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What is an unconditioned response?
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The unlearned, naturally occuring response to the unconditioned stimulus.
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What is repression?
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The basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness.
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What is rehearsal?
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The conscious repetition of information, either to mantain it in consciousness or to encode it for storage.
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What is encoding?
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The conversion of physical stimuli in to a format that can be placed in memory.
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Who is Elizabeth Loftus?
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A human memory researcher who focuses on false memories.
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What is a conditioned response?
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The learned response to a previously neutral (but now conditioned) stimulus.
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What is the interference theory?
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The idea that memories are not lost, but the brain can't find them in the clutter of alternative responses.
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What is the decay theory?
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Memories disappear with time if they are not used. Info is forgoten because information is not used and the memory trace is gone.
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What is retrograde amnesia?
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Forgetting items learned before trauma.
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What is anterograde amnesia?
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Inability to remember new learning explicitly.
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What is chunking?
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Grouping information in chunks of approximately 7 so more can be held in short term memory at one time.
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What is information?
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All data that enters the system input from the environment.
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What is retrieval?
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Being able to bring imformation in to short term memory when it is needed.
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What is thinking?
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Mental processes and activities that make use of information.
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