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part 3 memory

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1Mnemonicsany device or technique used to assist memory
2Mood-congruent memoryconsistency between one’s mood state and the emotional context of memories recalled
3Morphemea unit of meaning that cannot be analyzed into smaller such units
4One-word stagethe developmental period, between approximately 10 and 18 months, when children use one word at a time when speaking
5Overconfidencea cognitive bias characterized by an overestimation of one’s actual ability to perform a task successfully, by a belief that one’s performance is better than that of others, or by excessive certainty in the accuracy of one’s beliefs
6Phonemea speech sound that plays a meaningful role in a language and cannot be analyzed into smaller meaningful sounds
7Primingthe effect in which recent experience of a stimulus facilitates or inhibits later processing of the same or a similar stimulus
8Proactive interferenceinterference in new learning due to previous learning of similar or related material
9Prototypethe process by which a person abstracts a common idea from one or more particular examples and learns the defining features or combination of features that are characteristic of a class
10Recallto transfer prior learning or past experience to current consciousness
11Recognitiona sense of awareness and familiarity experienced when one encounters people, events, or objects that have been encountered before or when one comes upon material that has been learned in the past
12Rehearsalthe repetition of information in an attempt to maintain it longer in memory
13Relearninga way of measuring quantitatively, without relying on an individual’s conscious memory, how much learned material is retained
14Representativeness heuristica strategy for making categorical judgments about a given person or target based on how closely the exemplar matches the typical or average member of the category
15Repressionthe basic defense mechanism that excludes painful experiences and unacceptable impulses from consciousness