PSYC 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Arbitrariness, Turing Test, Phoneme
16 Nov 2016
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Progress exam december 10, 2016, 12:00-3:00; check seating. Organization best metaphor organized like a library. Two ways to lose info: lose book info not available, misfile it info not accessible. Organization of memory: hierarchies, associative networks, schemas (schemata, scripts) Because ltm is organized, we can treat ltm retrieval (search) as problem-solving. Also because ltm is organized, we are vulnerable to top-down contextual effects. We tend to encode in ltm in terms of what we already know and to reconstruct at retrieval: simplification (encoding failure, reconstruction. Physical trauma (amnesia: retrograde amnesia, anterograde amnesia. Interference: retroactive interference (ri, proactive interference (pi) Distortion: semantic integration of verbal information into visual memory. Limited as a theory only to highly emotional stuff! Refer to the triune brain and the hot/cool theory. Skinner/pavlov discriminative stimulus, the power of the situation. Practice develops cool system; developing stronger metacognitions; plans or narratives for when we are in the midst of temptation: (cid:862)re(cid:448)e(cid:374)ge is a dish (cid:271)est ser(cid:448)ed (cid:272)old(cid:863)
