Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Eyewitness Identification, Psych, Nootropic

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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Monday december 8th 1:30 room is ssc 2050. State dependent retrieval: eich et al (1975) Mood influences the kind of info we acquire and retrieve. Did you see the broken headlight vs did you see a broken headlight more likely to say yes to first one: smashed, collided, bumped, hit, contacted, different estimate of speed based on word used. Much face the possibility of senile dementia undoing of the mind. Association areas of frontal and temporal lobes: easily observed on autopsy, never degeneration in acl tracts, reduction in acl produces memory loss, ne, serotonin and da also involved. Chromosome 21 defect (1 case in 3) Build up of protein results in plaques and tangles strangle neuron to death. Smart drugs (nootropics) eg piracetam aspirin or advil seems to slow progression. Encoding specificity memory is aided when the context at learning is matched by the context at retrieval.