POLS 155 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Nose-Picking, Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning
11 Dec 2017
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Recall: pulling information from memory with little to no external cues. Serial position effect: the order in which information is presented in uences the ability to accurately recall information. Recency effect- info presented last or most recent is easier to recall. Recognition: the ability to match a piece of information or a stimulus to a stored image or fact. The answer is there it simply has to be matched to the information in memory. False positives: error when people think they recognize a stimulus that is not actually in their memory. Eye witness testimonies: putting an idea in people heads making them believe its a fact ex: weird nose, picking someone out of a lineup. Encoding failure: failure to get information into memory. Memory trace decay: use it or lose it. Interference: memories may not always be accessible for retrieval because other. Retroactive things i remember best about memory three types of forgetting use it or lose it false positives.
