PSYCH 101- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 26 pages long!)

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The monkey business illusion - selective attention, we filter out irrelevant or compete information which is the players in black t shirts or the guy in the gorilla suit (black suit). High cognitive load - when you are mentally busy ex. studying. Low cognitive load - when you"re not mentally busy ex watching tv. Next in line effect - you"re next, somebody is up there presenting. You will remember nothing they are saying because you are mentally worried about what you are going to say next. But the person after you, you will most likely remember what they say. Reconstructive process, learning over time through encoding, storage and retrieval of information. Its selective, details are excluded, altered, and added. Recall / retrieval - getting memory out of the memory storage. Forgetting - deficiency in one or more of these processes. (not a memory process but a failure of one or more)