Memory in Psychology

Psychology studies memory through behavior and mental process: how people encode information, retain it, retrieve it, distort it, forget it, and use it to guide action.

Core terms: learning, locus of control, attention, awareness, conscious, subconscious, unconscious, preconscious, nonconscious processing, explicit memory, working memory, short-term memory, long-term memory, episodic memory, semantic memory, procedural memory, prospective memory, retrospective memory, recency effect, temporal order memory, mental time travel, encoding, recall, recognition, forgetting.

Terms that change meaning across fields: memory, cue, retrieval, interference, salience, extinction, consolidation.

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