PSY 102 Study Guide - Final Guide: Descriptive Statistics, Representativeness Heuristic, Falsifiability

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 102
• Professor: Meagan Mackenzie

Document Summary

Psyc 102 study guide 3 (chapters 7 - 8 ) Cases where rememberers report of a past event seriously deviates from the actual occurrence. Iconic- responsible for helping us to hang on to visual images decay rapidly: describe the duration and capacity of short - term memory. Proactive (forward acting) disruptive effect of prior learning on recall of new information. When an old memory interferes with remembering a new info. Ex memory of where you parked your car last week interfering with ability to remember car today. Retroactive interference (backwards acting) disruptive effect of new learning on recall of old info. When a new memory interfered with remembering old info. 7 plus or minus two pieces of information: describe the use of chunking and rehearsal in effortful remembering. Rehearsal- is repeating the info mentally to keep it alive in our memory used to extend duration of info in short-term memory. Semantic- encoding of meaning, including meaning of words.