PSYCH101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Css Box Model, Prospective Memory, Little Albert Experiment

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Paul Wehr

Document Summary

Memory: memory encoding, memory storage, forgetting, conclusions for students, focusing awareness on a narrow range of stimuli. This filters out irrelevant stimuli (the players in the black shirts) Early selection models place the model between sensory detection and recognition of meaning. Dividing attention during encoding leads to impaired memory (eg. word frequency in a conversation) When the person before you gets up to do their presentation and you start to think about your presentation while they"re doing theirs. Trying to split your attention towards social media and the professor. It"s selective, and details are excluded (some info is let go), altered (some parts are changed slightly), and added (never actually happened but it"s there in the memory) Things are recreated and changed (lots of errors) Forgetting: deficiency in one or more of these processes. Encoding: passive encoding: simple info may be encoded automatically (e. g. parked car, last night"s tv show; word frequencies)