PSYCO104 Study Guide - Final Guide: Morris Water Navigation Task, Radial Arm Maze, Episodic Memory

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO104
• Professor: Blaine Mullins

Document Summary

Brain ignores the stimulus; you still perceive it. Increased complexity = increased time before habituation. Came up with the idea of dualism. First westerner to suggest reflexes dorsal root. Discovered how to extract the contents of a stomach without killing the organism. Disproved the idea that reflexes were innate. Independently discovered the same thing in 1902. Friday, november 8th, 2013 the ability to encode, store, and retrieve information. Vividness of a memory is not correlated with accuracy. People have a tendency to remember certain facts. Memories are selectively focused on what we consider important. Homebuyers vs. thief elaborative encoding actively relating new information with information already stored in long-term memory. Inner-left temporal lobe and lower-left frontal lobe (meeting point between centers of higher thought and language) visual imagery storing information by changing it into mental encoding pictures; requires a mental picture/visualization. Occipital lobe organizational identifying relationships among items or categorizing encoding items.