University:
California State University, Northridge
Course:
PSY 351 | Behavioral Psychology and Therapy
Academic year:

2021
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5
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Unit 5 Psych test prep MEMORY Schema: mental rep of connected ideas ex: sleep and bed Memory: learning continued over time Parallel processing: interpreting multiple events at the same time ● ● People are able to ignore surrounding stimuli to focus on the more important stimuli: selective attention Information not encoded or rehearsed is forgotten aka not sent to long term memory Long term memories Episodic: experiences a person can recall Schematic: impersonal memories that are common knowledge Procedural: memories of how to do something Implicit memories: those retained without conscious thought Priming: using cues to activate memories Explicit memories: memories consciously bright to mind Automatic processing: information processing that occurs without being aware of it Effortful processing: processing that occurs via effort on your part Chunking: combining bits of related info together to remember Maintenance rehearsal: repeating info to prolong its stay in short term memory Shallow processing: remembering basic facts, only memorizing, tend to be forgotten Elaborative rehearsal: linking info with already learned info Deep processing: ER^ with meaningful analysis of the words State dependent: remembering something when in the same physical state as the memory Mood dependent: concept that while in mood you remember ideas with the same mood Context dependent: memory remembered in the same context it occurred Serial position effect: remembering the first and last items in a sequence merge of primary and recency effect Hippocampus: emotions and STM to LTM Amygdala: processes emotional reactions Cerebellum: procedural memories Basal ganglia: memory retrieval and procedural memory, important with habits Retrograde: forgetting events before a trauma Anterograde: not able to remember after an event, no long term memory repression:pushing bad memories away unconsciously Suppression: pushing bad memories away on purpose Proactive interference: prior learning makes it hard to learn new info Retroactive interference: new memories make it hard to retrieve old info - Eyewitness accounts are untrustworthy - Memories with large emotions associated with them are vivid- flashbulb memories - The inability to remember the source of a memory is source amnesia Positive transfer: mastery of one task helps with another Negative transfer: mastery of one task conflicts with other Convergent thinking: limits creativity, cutting down to one answer Divergent thinking: very create, multiple possible answers Heuristics: rules of thumb in head to help solve problems Representative: judge how something represents prototypes already in head, preconceived notions of groups in our head ex: racism Availability: likely hood of event based on availability in memory Insight: sudden relization to solution Intuition: what we know without effort Cognitive bias: preconceived notions that lead away from solution Confirmation bias: tendency to search for info that supports your opinion