PSYC 1020H Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Parasympathetic Nervous System, Sympathetic Nervous System, Short-Term Memory
9 Dec 2016
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The essential unit of psychology is: the response (reaction to a stimuli) on the exam. The essential operation that affects the relationship between the representation of the experience and the stimulus is: space-time-continuity. He feels as if something bad is going to happen. When the feeling is so intense, he closes his eyes and calls upon the power of the negaverse and nothing bad happens. He finds that he is calling upon the negaverse (and zoisite) more and more frequently. The most likely pro(cid:272)ess that is (cid:373)ediati(cid:374)g a(cid:373)uel"s respo(cid:374)se rate is: superstitious conditioning. Priming- difficult to recall a list of words, but giving hints improves accuracy. Sensory input sensory memory (attention) short term memory (encoding) long term mem. Unattended info is lost unrehearsed info is lost some info may be lost over time. 12 letter display whole report condition 37% correct (4 letters) 12 letter display tone after display (high, med, low) or some indicator stimulus 76% correct (3 letters)
