Psychology 2135A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Executive Functions, Internal Monologue, Implicit Memory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: John Paul Minda

Document Summary

Transience: lose access to information across time (forgetting, interference) Absent-mindedness: everyday memory failures in remembering info &intended activities, caused by insufficient attention or superficial automatic processing during encoding. Blocking: temporary retrieval failure (loss of access, tip-of-the-tongue state, episodic or semantic. Misattribution: remembering a fact correctly but attributing it to an incorrect source. Incorporating info from others in your own recollection &memory representation. Persistence: knowledge, beliefs &feelings distorting recollection of experiences, affect current &future judgments &memory, remembering facts or events you"d rather forget, failure to forget due to intrusive recollections &rumination. Memory isn"t designed to remember specific facts &details, we need it to be flexible. Fantasize a lot &become extremely absorbed in what they"re doing. Encoding: putting things in memory, the research focus is on attentional or processing limits. Storage: knowledge representation, memories for procedures, facts. Retrieval: remembering &recalling things, using info that was stored. 5 ways to divide memory: content, encoding, retrieval, effort, duration.