PSYC 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Encoding Specificity Principle, Anterograde Amnesia, Interference Theory
4 Nov 2018
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Different types of memory: sensory, short-term, long-term, retrospective, prospective, procedural, declarative, semantic, episodic, flashbulb, implicit, explicit. Levels of processing structural, phonemic, semantic, self-referent. Misinformation effect, confabulation, source amnesia, selective attention, inattentional and change blindness, retrograde and anterograde amnesia, repression, pseudoforgetting, eyewitness testimony findings, suggestibility, proactive & retroactive interference. Elabouration, self-referent encoding, primacy and recency effects, retrieval cues, state & mood dependent memory, context dependent cues, transfer appropriate processing, encoding specificity principle. Baddeley"s model of working memory different components of and their functions. Biology & memory hemispheric specialization; role of hippocampus in memory. Memory improvement techniques e. g. various types of mnemonics. Differences and similarities between classical and operant conditioning. Relative chronology of key theorists: pavlov, watson, skinner, bandura. Different types of indirect methods for inferring brain function e. g. eeg, esb etc. Structure of the nervous system including its divisions and sub-divisions, as well as their main functions e. g. cns, pns etc.
