CAS PS 241 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sociometry, Peer Pressure, Mahzarin Banaji
26 Apr 2016
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Information children can"t learn themselves: santa, germs, ghosts. Children have biases from different kinds of informants: complete trust in known figures lessens as children get older. Tied to attention: people encode information that draws their attention or things they think are important. But people fail to encode a great deal of info: storage: storing encoded information, retrieval: finding a stored memory, different kinds of memory, sensory memory: refers to sights, sounds, and other sensations, briefly held in raw form. Can hold a moderate amount of info for a fraction of a second: working memory: a workspace in which external information and existing knowledge are brought together, attended to, and actively processed. Capacity and speed of operation increase greatly over development. Infant: capacity=3: foraging task: infants differentiate 1, 2, 3 but stop at 4, manuel search task: same result, long-term memory: refers to information retained on an enduring basis.
