PSYC 3610 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Memory, Working Memory, Semantic Memory

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3610
• Professor: Lori Doan

Document Summary

It took less total time to master a list that had been given distributed practice than one that received massed practice. Zeitgeist a particular belief system in a particular time setting in a particular set of people: kept psychology from evolving as science earlier, e. g. , dualism, a view that the mind and body are distinct from each other. Endel tulving: taking first the perspective of cognitive psychology and later cognitive neuroscience, tulving has introduced to the field many of the theoretical ideas on which all memory researchers now rely. Cognitive psychology: an approach to psychology which emphasizes hidden mental process, memory scientists started switching from s-r models to models emanating from the new science of cognitive psychology. Methods of studying memory: to study memory objectively, we must apply the scientific method, can make generalizations about how memory works in human beings and get reasonable estimates of measurable individual differences.