PSY 201 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Activation-Synthesis Hypothesis, Semantic Memory, Sleep Spindle
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Eyewitnesses: can remember things that never happened if you ask questions like did you see the not a . People tend to remember ethnicity children: can be greatly influenced by interviewers bias on what happened using imagination inflation. 3 yr. olds almost always go along with suggested stuff/ 4-6 yr. olds 50%. Explicit memory: conscious recollection of an event/information: recall method: retrieving memory from previous info, recognition test: identify info from previous stuff. Implicit memory: unconscious retention of memory that affects our thoughts/actions: priming method: exposure to info task 1 influences memory responds to. Information processing model: similar to a computer: encodes information into a form the brain can work with (convert), stores the info (retain, retrieves the info (recover) Three box model: sensory register: sensory info from environment/ retention 1-2 s for process / handles a lot of info, short term memory (stm): limited info / retention 30 s, long term memory (ltm): accounts for longer storage.
