PSY100H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Machiavellianism, Pluralistic Ignorance, Fundamental Attribution Error
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Know terminology: the atkinson- shriffrin model. Three memory stores (retain information in memory without using in any speci c purposes) Iconic memory: the visual form of sensory memory ( ) Echoic memory: the auditory from of sensory memory (cid:48859)5-10 (cid:48860: short term memory (stm): a memory store with limited capacity and duration. (<1 min) The magic number 7 2 : ( 7 . Chunking ( ): organize smaller units of information into larger, more meaningful units. (cid:48859) . Serial position effect: people will recall the rst few items from a list and the last few items, but only an item or two from the middle. Proactive interference: a process in which the rst information learned occupies memory, leaving fewer resources left to remember the newer information. Retroactive interference: the most recently learned information overshadows some older memories that have not yet made it into long-term memory.
