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Which is a classic mnemonic device?

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Method of loci

2
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The improved retention of one piece of information that is made distinct or different from the information around it is called

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the von Restorff effect.

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_______ rehearsal is low-level, repetitive information cycling; where as ________ rehearsal is more complex that uses the meaning of the information to help remember it.

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maintenance; elaborative

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In this task items are learned in sets of two so that the correct response item can be reproduced when the stimulus item is presented.

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Pair-associate learning

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Memory for general world knowledge is called

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semantic

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This concept claims that words that denote concrete objects, as opposed to abstract words, can be encoded into memory twice, once in terms of their verbal attributes and once in terms of their image-based properties.

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dual-coding hypothesis

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This type of memory is for personally experienced information.

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episodic

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The loss of memory for events before brain injury is called _______ amnesia; the inability to form new memories after brain injury is called _______ amnesia.

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retrograde; anterograde

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This effect claims that memory is better when someone’s physiology at encoding is similar to their physiology at retrieval.

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state-dependent learning

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Patient H.M. was able to improve his performance on the mirror-tracing task over several days of practice despite an inability to form new memories and having no conscious memory of ever doing the task. This type of learning is called

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implicit