Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Nootropic, Ibuprofen

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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315-331: your freudian therapist discovers you cannot remember your first day at school. Most likely, she would attribute this motivated forgetting to: repression. Bower (1981) = mood congruity: as long as you are feeling that mood you will remember things that are tagged with the same mood. State dependent retrieval: you will remember things better when you are in the same state in which you made the memory. Mood influences the kind of info we acquire and retrieve. Chromosome 21 defect (1 case in 3) Build up of protein results in plaques and tangles. Keyword method: think of highly visualized image and link it to new concept, have words interact". Method of loci: again imagery, place each item at a different location, also works best with interaction. Peg method: take easy list (1,2,3, use these as pegs to hand new info on, eg 1.