PSYC 1000- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 62 pages long!)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Paula Barata

Document Summary

Forgetting: encoding failure, like the details of the penny, storage decay, passage of time, retrieval failure, may be able to access the memory at another time or with a clue, (cid:862)it"s o(cid:374) the tip of (cid:373)(cid:455) to(cid:374)gue(cid:863) Imagination effect: day you went on a hot air balloon, misinformation, hot air balloon picture, source amnesia, mistake the source of memory. We"ve learned about the brain through accidents or surgeries that have been performed. H. m: epilepsy, after the surgery he could no longer have long-term memory (50 first dates) Phineas gage: rod lodged through his head (in through his cheek and out through his frontal lobe, he lived, repercussions, aggressive, unable to have relationships, etc. Experiments animals and people: stimulation, rats. Limbic system: hippocampus, memory, amygdala, rage / anger, hypothalamus, body thermostat, body"s reward system. Divided into 4 lobes: frontal, parietal, occipital, temporal. The brain is separated into two hemispheres that: Control the opposite sides of the body (contralateral control)