PSYC 2650 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Anterograde Amnesia, Asteroid Family, World War Ii
8 Nov 2012
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Episodic memory: remembering parts of one"s life; autobiographical memory; particular thing that happened at a particular time: recalling memories from a specific time. Semantic memory: things you are aware of; based on knowledge, not personal experience. Ebbinghaus and experimental control: to-be-remembered stimuli. Meaningless; with no semantic associations to avoid the use of memory strategies to help the individual remember/ make associations. Pronounceable but not a known word (experiments were conducted in german: independent variables. Retention interval: time interval over which the subject has to remember the information. Longer retention intervals are bad for memory because memory fades with time. More thing to remember have a negative result on memory. Being exposed to a memory in a certain order leads to the expectation that when exposed to the memory again, it will be shows in the same order: dependent variable. Study time before ri: retention interval 20min. Backward association: would presenting gor evoke mev: experiment:
