[PSYC 101] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (58 pages long!)

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 101
• Professor: Janel Fergusson

Document Summary

Study guide: psyc 101 week 4, day 1. Review sessions: oct 3rd (10-11:30, oct 6th (12-1:30) Basic model for memory (encoding > storage > retrieval: encoding: getting information in to memory, the role of attention determines what we remember, stimulus > sensory detection (early filtering) > recognition of meaning (late filtering) > response selection. Atkinson & shiffrin (1968) the modal model: sensory memory > short-term memory > long-term memory. Sensory memory: very brief perceptual store, stimulus information is stored for a very brief time, most studied iconic (visual) and echoic (auditory) Partial recall: subjects are able to recall much more if the cue is presented immediately, cues reference physical characteristics, those that reference nonphysical characteristics don"t work. Short term memory the capacity to store small amounts of information over brief intervals. ~20 seconds without rehearsal (anything longer is considered. Chunking process of combining a number of items into a single chunk; typically, on the basis of long-term memory.