Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Aspirin, Piracetam, Ibuprofen

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Mike Atkinson

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State dependent retrieval: eich et. al. (1975) Mood influences the kind of info we acquire & retrieve. False retrieval cues (cid:498)shocking(cid:499) events disrupt (cid:498)did you see t(e broken headlight? (cid:499) (cid:498)did you see a broken headlight? (cid:499) (cid:498)the(cid:499) is more common than (cid:498)a(cid:499) Filling in the expectation (cid:498)the(cid:499) makes you think that there was one did not happen, happened) Anything definite is a false retrieval cue (suggesting to you that things that. Not very accurate because memory gets reconstructed. Person asks store clerk where airport is simple instructions. Police comes in and describes person as. Better identifying person of same race as you. Difficult picking out someone who is different from you is very hard. Black store clerk can easily pick out black person vs. white person. White store clerk can easily pick out white person vs. black person. Must face the possibility of senile (old) dementia (undoing of the mind) Zinc: treatment, nourishment and exercise, (cid:498)smart drugs(cid:499) (cid:523)nootropics(cid:524)