PS260 Study Guide - Ray Jackendoff, General Idea, Daniel Schacter
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Studied memory for stories (more meaningful to people) Memory is a reconstructive process guided by schemata. Recall is more difficult as length of list increases. Savings: reduction in number of trials it takes to learn the same list. Memory performance declines the longer the time between acquisition and recall. Unconscious inference: perceiver plays an interpretive role in experiences, perception is not a passive process. Structuralism: contents of mental experience, all conscious experiences can be broken down into basic mental elements: sensations, feelings, images. Functionalism: the functions of mental experience, stream of consciousness -behavioralism: the mind is unobservable; looking at the response is objective and scientific. Forgetting is initially rapid and then slows (forgetting curve). Gestalt psychology: organizational processes in mental processing, the whole is different than the sum of its parts. Chomsky: challenges behaviorism using the example of language, learning without responding, learning without reinforcement, latent learning.
