PSYC 101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Interference Theory, Long-Term Memory, Experimental Psychology
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Chapter 1: the evolution of psychology: summarize wundt"s accomplishments and contributions to psychology, aimed to make psychology an independent discipline, established 1st formal laboratory for research in psychology at the university of. Chapter 7- human memory: describe the three basic human memory processes, acquisition/ encoding- process of interpreting and transforming into the code, retaining/ consolidating- the process stabilizing a memory after its initial used by the brain acquisition. Given the definition of a word and you are supposed to come up with the word: context cues- recalling an event by putting yourself back into the context in which it occurred ex. Forgetting what you wanted to get when you go in a different room: encoding specificity principal- condition during encoding and retrieval should be the same ex. Extra info. from lecture: modal model of memory- sensory memory then stm then ltm, sensory memories- hold information long enough to analyze for higher-level processes.
