PSY 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Genetic Predisposition, Information Processing, Working Memory

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Psychology (PSY)
• Course: PSY 001
• Professor: del rio

Document Summary

Learning new behaviours or information by watching others and imitating them. Extent to which we focus on others" behaviours and imitate them. Our ability to actually preform the actions we deserve. Ability to perform the actions we observe. Our need for the actions we witness, their usefulness to us. Some things you can"t condition an animal to do. An indication that learning has persisted over time. Without memory, everyone would be a stranger to you, every task new, you would be a stranger to yourself. Information in memory does not mean it is retrieved in its exact form. There are biases in encoding and retrieval. We may remember how something smells or a movie, but you may remember wrong. Memory is a reconstruction, not a replication of reality. Think of: keyboard (encoding) -> disk (storage) -> monitor (retrieval) How many letters can you recall (yellow square) The exposure time for the stimulus is so small items cannot be rehearsed.