PSYC 213 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Linguistic Determinism, Insular Cortex, Propranolol

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 213
• Professor: Signy Sheldon

Document Summary

Some aspect of memory is involved in everything we do. Memory is the foundation of a lot of activities that we carry out in life: memory is important for. Sense of self: you know who you are through what you can remember of yourself. Directive functions: how to solve problems, directs how we act, gives us examples of what we did in the past and how it worked out then, helps us plan our actions in the future and make predictions. Social functions: we use our memories to communicate how we think or feel, reminiscence. Memory is constructed: most important characteristic about memory, their bikes all looked different; pedals were attached to different places across drawings. What we actually remember must not me the objective truth. Participants were told to draw a bike from memory. How do we organize information we want to learn: storing. How do we connect memories together: retrieval. Visual information held very briefly, fading within milliseconds.