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Anterograde Amnesia
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Loss of memory for events that occur after a head injury
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Attention
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Focusing awareness on a narrowed range of stimuli or events
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Chunk
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A group of familiar stimuli stored as a single unit
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Clustering
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Tendancy to remember similar or related items in groups
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Conceptual hierarchy
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Multilevel classification system based on common properties among items
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Connectionist Models
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PDP models
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Consolidation
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Hypothetical process involving the gradual conversion of the information into durable memory codes stored in long-term memory
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Decay theory
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The idea that forgetting occurs because memory traces fade with time
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Declarative memory system
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Memory for factual information
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Dual-coding theory
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Paivo's theory that memory is inhanced by forming semantic and visual codes, since either can lead to recall
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Elaboration
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Linking a stimulus to other information at the time of encoding
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Encoding
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Forming a memory code
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Encoding specific principal
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The idea that the value of a retreival cue depends on how well it corresponds to the memory code
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Episodic memory system
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Chronological recollations of personal experiences
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Explicit memory
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Intentional recollation of previous experiences
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