PSYC 305- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 16 pages long!)
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Autobiographical memory: what has happened in my life. Memory of how you heard of an event, nationwide/global event, emotionally latent. Creating false memories for early events in people"s lives. Life changes, correcting identity, milestones we hit in early 20s. Introduction to semantic networks: collins and quillian"s model. Quantifiable connection weights, modeled off of neurons. Depending on visual image, perception changes even though acoustic signal stays the same. Parsing and a trip down the garden path. The way we group words to make meaningful phrases. Add words on until it make grammatical sense then when it doesn"t you go back and group it. Sentence understanding influenced by the meaning of words. Compare the deficits that genie, edik and oksana have. Know what skills they were able to acquire. Explain the use it or lose it hypothesis. The gestalt approach: problem-solving as representation and restructuring. Something to consider: does large working memory capacity result in better problem-
