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Negative Punishment
Definition Negative punishment in operant conditioning refers to a behavior modification techniqu...
Law of Effect
Definition The Law of Effect, introduced by psychologist Edward Thorndike in the early 20th centu...
Storage
Definition Storage in human memory refers to the process by which information is retained and mad...
Short-Term Memory
Definition Short-term memory refers to the temporary storage system within our brains that holds ...
Sensory Memory
Definition Sensory memory is a type of memory system that briefly holds sensory information immed...
Semantic Memory
Definition Semantic memory is a type of long-term memory that stores general knowledge, facts, co...
Self-Reference Effect
Definition The self-reference effect is a cognitive phenomenon where individuals tend to remember...
Schacter's Seven Sins of Memory
Definition Schacter's Seven Sins of Memory are seven common ways that human memory can fail us, i...
Procedural Memory
Definition Procedural memory is a type of long-term memory that stores information about how to p...
Memory Construction
Definition Memory construction refers to the process by which humans organize and interpret past ...
Memory Consolidation
Definition Memory consolidation is the process by which newly acquired information or skills are ...
Memory
Definition Memory is the process by which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved in the br...
Long-Term Memory
Definition Long-term memory refers to the brain's ability to store information over extended peri...
Flash Bulb Memory
Definition Flash bulb memory refers to a vivid, detailed, and long-lasting memory of an emotional...
Explicit Memory
Definition Explicit memory refers to the ability to consciously recall specific information or pa...
Episodic Memory
Definition Episodic memory refers to the ability to remember specific personal experiences or eve...
Encoding Failure
Definition Encoding failure occurs when our brain fails to successfully convert information from ...
Habituation
Definition Habituation in classical conditioning refers to a decrease in response to a repeated, ...
Conditioned Stimulus
Definition A conditioned response is a learned reaction to a specific stimulus that occurs after ...
Conditioned Response
Definition A conditioned response is a learned reaction to a specific stimulus that occurs after ...