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encoding

storage

 

retrieval

 

3-box model

 

sensory memory

 

George Sperling

 

iconic memory

 

echoic memory

 

selective attention

 

short-term memory

 

George Miller

 

the “magical number 7”

 

organizational encoding

 

chunking

 

rehearsal

 

working memory

 

long-term memory

 

declarative / explicit memory

 

episodic memory

 

semantic memory

 

non-declarative / implicit memory

 

procedural memory

 

Daniel Schacter

 

transience

 

Hermann Ebbinghaus

 

forgetting curve

 

absentmindedness

 

blocking

 

tip-of-the-tongue experience

 

misattribution

 

source memory

 

false recognition

 

cryptomnesia

 

suggestibility

 

Elizabeth Loftus

 

reconstructive memory

 

bias

 

consistency bias

 

egocentric bias

 

persistence

 

flash-bulb memory

 

state-dependent memory

 

hippocampus

 

anterograde amnesia

 

retrograde amnesia

 

patient H.M.

 

long-term potentiation (LTP)

 

NMDA

 

serial position effect

 

primacy

 

recency

 

testing effect

 

distributed review

 

massed practice

 

spaced-repetition software (SRS)

 

overlearning

 

levels of processing

 

self-referential effect

 

retrieval cue

 

spreading activation

 

Method of Loci / Roman Room / Journey Method

 

Link / Keyword Method

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