AP Psychology Memory

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Memory in which people recall events in great detail is called

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Flashbulb Memory

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Which memory task involves identifying objects encountered before?

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Recognition

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What type of memory is involved when Jim forgets a phone number he just looked up? Options: Short-Term Memory, Long Term Memory, Visual Memory, Echoic Memory

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Short-Term Memory

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The process of filing information into your memory is...

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Encoding

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Our long-term memory capacity is

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Essentially limitless

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______ involves maintaing encoded information in memory over time.

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Storage

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the persistence of learning over time through the storage and retrieval of information

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Memory

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the process of getting information out of memory storage.

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retrieval

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translation of information into a form to be stored and recovered

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Encoding

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Short term memory is limited to about ___ items

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