PSYCH 1X03 Study Guide - Final Guide: Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Oedipus Complex
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Acquisition- the process by which the frequency of a response is raised from its initial level to some final, steady rate. Encoding specificity- the finding that recall is better when retrieval takes place in similar conditions to encoding illustrating that our memory is affected by out internal and external environment. Fluency- the ease with which an experiment is processed. Forgetting curve- a curve describing the amount of information lost from memory over time. Levels of processing- a memory model which states that the deeper a concept is processed, the better it is remembered. Multi-store model- a theory of memory proposing that all incoming information enters the short term memory and must be rehearsed to enter long term memory. Primacy effect- the finding of increased recall for items at the beginning of an ordered list, likely due to an increased time to rehearse early items. Recall- a memory retrieval task in which the subject must remember items form the encoding phase.
