PSY 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Psychoanalysis, Mental Model, Elizabeth Loftus

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

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Acquiring / getting in info (type: storage. Retaining / mainting info for future use (save: retrieval. Memory with awareness; retreine & are conscious of. Not consciously retreving it; it is there, yet influencing + affecting our behaviour. Ex: not able to know letters in keyboard. Procedural memory: example of implicit memory skills + habit gradually acquired, then become automatic. Recall: memory test asked to remember stun, not given any cues (search memory to find answer) ex: what is neuroplasticity. Recognition: ask to remember stun, given several cues, one is correct answer, job is to find correct answer. Relearning: measure how long it takes to learn stun already learned. 2 major ways: automatic processing: incode info. Do not put conscious after into it. Learning info as i go with my day. Ex: remember what i ate last night: effortful processing (incoding info): put effort in it; spend time + energy to acquire info.