PSYC 1010 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Lake Huron, Moodle

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Assignment now posted on moodle - once again, there is no need for library research to successfully complete the assignment. Lecture content material: recap: cognitive perspective - 3 stage model of information processing - information first goes into sensory store (holds huge amounts of information, but for a short time. If sensory information is attended to it will be encoded to the. One way to hold more information in the stm is to use chunking in which information is organized into meaningful units. First, a demonstration: remember many words (words read aloud by jubis) - write down the words you remember. Student"s answers: repetition, mental image, created hierarchy, acronyms, story. (text does not make the following distinction) - repetition referred to as maintenance rehearsal. not a good strategy because the stm can only hold so much info. So if you don"t do something with the words, repetition isn"t going to work - you"ll run out of.