PSYCH 133F Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Domain Specificity, Stroop Effect, Working Memory
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Information from pg 62 through 70 will not be covered. The following will not be covered: sensory store, symbolic representations, propositional networks, conditional knowledge, mnemonist and mnemonic device, autobiographical memory, memory distortions, eyewitness testimony. Everything else under a different heading or subheading may be covered. This is not a study guide of what will and will not be covered from lecture. Encouraged everyone to do readings before class and used the laundry passage experiment to support this practice. Take home message: having a conceptual structure to process information helps in comprehension. Discussed why i am assigning multiple tests in terms of testing effect. Discussed why the tests are partially cumulative. Cumulative exams help high scorers to retain info much longer. Three explanatory systems for how children develop: piaget. Before piaget, people thought of babies as dumb adults. Piaget argued that they are good thinker but in their own way.
