PSY 1001 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Determinism, Linguistic Determinism, Elizabeth Loftus
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Rehearsal: repetition over time to store memory, maintains information. Encoding: notice things about it, sends info to long-term memory. Short-term function: to do conscious work, to think. Chunking: meaningful pieces of information that go in and out of memory. Peterson study: look at letters, count backwards, found memory stops at 10-15 seconds. Long-term function: tie together the past with the present. Episodic memory: recollection of specific events in our lives, explicit. Semantic memory: knowledge of general facts of the world, explicit. Clive wearing: man who cannot remember any past or store current memories, remembers his wife, but not previous meetings, knows the english language, but not how he learned it, no episodic memory. Massed practice: studying information in large increments over a brief amount of time. Tip of the tongue phenomenon: experience of knowing that we know something but being unable to access it original memories matches the retrieval context.
