PSYC 2145 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Edward C. Tolman, Wilhelm Wundt, Whiteboard
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Which of the following used mental maps to explain behavior: wilhelm wundt, john b. watson, william james, b. f. skinner, edward tolman. He used the rats in the maze and used this info to develop the mental map idea. Retention depends on the type of processing you do at encoding (craik and lockhart, Ex: :the great bird swooped down and carried off the struggling chicken . Doing the work yourself, generating associations, makes you remember things better. Self generated material produces better retention than reading or hearing. Divided attention during learning makes recall much worse. Listening to music with lyrics reduces comprehension. Divided attention also harms learning in the classroom. Harms the learning of those around you. Generative note taking is summarizing, paraphrasing, and concept mapping during lecture. Good for both specific and conceptual info. Non generative note taking is a transcription of in the info. Most detrimental on conceptual rather than factual items.