PSYCH 240 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Essentialism, Retrograde Amnesia, Flashbulb Memory
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Raven"s progressive matrices: intelligence test, identify what fits that is missing. Individual differences: measure of working memory span: number of words you remember after reading series sentences. Interference: random number generation and syllogistic reasoning: uses up wm. Reading comprehension: people with good wm have better comprehension of text (esp. for lexical ambiguity) Anterograde amnesia (ltm disorder): patient hm couldn"t remember events post- injury, involved hippocampus, short-term memory was fine. Working memory disorder: patient kf had normal long term but impaired working mem & short digit span. Serial position curve: write down words- accuracy based on position in list, longer delay reduces recency effect, slower presentation increases primacy effect (stored in ltm?) Primacy effect: words at beginning of list (ltm) Recency effect: words at end of list (wm) Double dissociation logic (as applied to lesions, behavioral dissociations, and neuroimaging): people with lesions show absence of particular function. Baddeley"s 3-part model: phonological loop (can refresh w/sub vocal rehearsal) buffer and rehearsal.
