PSY 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Childhood Amnesia, Episodic Memory, Long-Term Memory

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Psychology (PSY)
• Course: PSY 001
• Professor: elizabeth

Document Summary

Something you can declare that you know. Don"t always remember when or how we know this knowledge. What you had for dinner, what you did for you 18th bday. Infantile amnesia we forget everything before the age of 4. Recall test! open ended question, that your respond any way you want. essay questions, short answer, fill in the blank. To recall something, first you have to generate a possible target and second you have to decide if it"s right or wrong. (two steps: think of it, then decide if it"s right or wrong) Recognition test! given a series of choices and you choose the correct one. Easier than a recall test, because information is in your long term memory, and it"s and additional help to retrieve it. Here you only have to decide if something is right or wrong. Allusion of truth! the more you hear about something you believe it.