PSYC 1101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Encoding Specificity Principle, Anterograde Amnesia, Retrograde Amnesia

• School: Northeastern University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1101
• Professor: Frank Naarendorp

Document Summary

Mood congruent retrieval -- you can recreate the mood at the time you were storing certain information << mood helps in retrieval. Conceptual hierarchy = how you add to what you already have (to long term memory) -- categorizes and ranks memories. Semantic network = also how you add to what you have, links memories to similar things. Pseudo-forgetting = when there is a problem with encoding. You never had the info stored in the first place, so how could you remember it? all about long term memory, (or possibly stm) Serial-position effect -- ebbinghaus you remember the first and last words in a sequence best (primacy and recency) Ebbinghaus curve -- the rate of forgetting levels off over time (but we forget ~40% in the first 9 hours) Encoding specificity principle = the usefulness of your retrieval cue (mood, a mnemonic, a sticky note) depends on how well it corresponds with your memory code.