PSYC 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Temporal Lobe, Brenda Milner, General Idea

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 213
• Professor: Signy Sheldon

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Conscious memory of general facts (not personal) Pyramid and palm trees test: which pictures fit most together. Fluidity test: name as many four legged animals as possible in 60 sec. Network of units (e. g. animal), which lead to individual objecs/things (e. g bird) have properties (wings), and pointers (sings) Said that the closer the connection is (bird and pigeon vs. bird and grey feathers) the easier to remember. Led to spreading activation : more specific units (concepts and properties are accessed directly, if one concept is activated it spreads to related concepts) Moses illusion: how were animals grouped on moses" arc people respond 2 without noticing that it was noah not moses (because the two are semantically related. Tip of the tongue: you know it but just can"t recall it until later (period of incubation) occurs most with words you don"t usually use.