• echoic memory- a momentary sensory memory of auditory stumuli; if attention is elsewhere, sounds and words can be recalled within 3 to 4 seconds. Ex- recalling what you just heard on TV while doing homework.
• long-term potentiation (LTP)- an increase in a synepe's firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation. Ex- after the boy is hit with a bat and knocked out, when he wakes up, he cannot remember what game he was playing.
• Impliciti Memory vs. Explicit memory- Implicit is the retention independent of recollection (ex- telling a story faster the second time, but not recalling telling it the first time) and explicit is the memory of facts and experiences that one cn consciously know and declare (knowing the president, but not knowing yourown name).
• Recall- a measure of mmoryin which a personmust retrieve information earlier ex-answering a "reading quiz" in english
• Serial positioning effect- our tendancy to recall the best, the last, and the first items on a list Ex- in sport everyone recalls the winner and the loser
• Recognition- a measure of memory in which the person need only identify items previously learned ex- using a list to remember your next task
• Relearning- a memory measurthat asses the ammount of tru time saved learning materil for a second time ex- going to the tutoring center
• priming- the activation, ofter unconcioulsy, of particular associations in memory ex- thinking of a printer to remmber the idea of paper

-Paige Barbour (Period 8)