Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Convenience Store, Dementia, Psych

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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Next time: christmas exam, read: chapter 5-8. Lecture: question from last time: not being able to remember your first day of school is due to repression organization (according to psychoanalysis, we impose structure on things, semantic encoding (picture drawn from left hand side) The way that we thing (cognition) is influenced by the way that we feel. Memories are cued by the motion being felt (when sad think sad thoughts, when happy think happy thoughts) Believed that if you are in a certain mood, you will be better able to recall events/things from similar moods. Eich et al study effects of marijuana on memory recall. Being under the influence or not while studying, and being under the influence or not when being tested. If the person was under the same state during studying and testing do well. Doesn"t matter whether you were sober & write test sober, or whether you were stoned and wrote the test stoned: eye witness identification.