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Character
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A pervasive and dominant set of underlying qualities of a person; reflects a general and consistent tendency to behave in good ways
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Ideology of assimilation
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Conformity is the main goal; students often lose identity with first culture, language, and ethnic affiliation
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Standard biography
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A working person starts by going to school to become educated, then enters into world of work until retirement; now replaced by elective biography
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Elective biography
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Periods of formalized learning ending in acquiring employment or additional education as adults; cycle of education, employment, education, etc.
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Two-store model of memory
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Developed by Atkinson and Shiffrin; 3 components
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Sensory register
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Temporary storage mechanism that holds info as it is directly obtained through the sensory organs
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Iconic storage register
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Involved in processing of info taken in visually
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Echoic storage register
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Max storage capacity of 4 seconds, then auditory-based info is lost
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Attention
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Consciously focusing on external stimuli
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Working (or short-term) memory
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Info maintained at a conscious level; about 7 bits of info
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Maintenance (or rote) rehearsal
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Repeat info in exact form in which processed
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Elaborative encoding
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More efficient/effective to remember long-term; forms links
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Chunking
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Combine elements into larger elements
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Automaticity
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Ability to perform an operation or task w/ very little conscious effort
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Encoding
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New info interacts w/ previously acquired and stored info
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