PSYC 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Availability Heuristic, Free Recall, Psych

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 201
• Professor: Stephen Lindsay

Document Summary

Remember better what you are actually tested on rather than revising lectures: what you do in the first test is similar to the final, practicing test taking is a good study habit. Desirable difficulties promote recall: free recall is more difficult than simply revising notes, feels hard but pays off better. Region of proximal learning: focus on all material learned; whether things are completely clear or murky. Easier for humans to find letter in first letter than finding letters in the third position: other cases of human memory of how it cannot be accurate to the actuality of the situation. Aspects of human mind can bring us to bias: a mental shortcut, availability heuristic -> more heard about a subject, we create a shortcut that makes us believe its true. Salient, media, drama -> we may rehearse certain situations more frequently. Maintain skepticism about availability heuristic