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The brain's system for filing away new information and retrieving previously learned data
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Memory
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A type of memory lasting no more than a few seconds in which the impression of a sensory stimulus is stored
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Sensory Memory
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A type of memory in which information for shor-term use is stored
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Working Memory
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A type of memory in which information othat can lifetime is stored
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Long-Term Memory
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The process by which sensory information is coverted into a form that can be stored
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Encoding
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The process by which encoded information is placed into memory
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Storage
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The process by which previously stored infomration is moved from long-term memory to working memory
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Retrieval
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The inability to retrieve information that has been previously stored
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Forgetting
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The parts of the brain that make up sensory memory
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Sensory Registers
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The part of the brain that modifies the human sense of sight by encoding visual information
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Visual Cortex
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The part of the brain that modifies the human sense of hearing by encoding auditiory information
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Auditory Cortex
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The part of the brain that modifies the human sense of hearing by encoding tactic information
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Sensory Cortex
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The part of the brain involved in the encoding and storage of working and long term memory and, to a lesser extent, in snsory memory processing
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Frontal Lobe
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A type of sensory memory involving visual stimuli
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Iconic memory
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The ability to recal deailed images vividly after looking at them for a short period of time
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Eidetic Memory
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