Psychology 2135A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Prefrontal Cortex, Temporal Lobe, Mnemonic

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: John Paul Minda

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Marmie and healy (2004): had participants examine novel coin for a minute and. Marmie and healy (2004): had participants examine novel coin for a minute and a week later were asked to recall details -- higher accuracy than penny. Goldstein and chance (1970): compared memory for faces vs. snowflakes. 48 hours after viewing pictures, participants able to recognize 74% of faces and only 30% of snowflakes due to humans are used to noticing small differences in faces, and not used to noticing differences in snowflakes. Oates and reder (2010): compared recognition memory for word swith recognition memory for abstract pictures recognition memory for pictures only half as good as memory for words. Bower, karlin, dueck (1975): people"s good memory for pictures is tied to their ability to make sense of the pictures participants given an explanation about a doodle should 20% better recall to redraw the image.