PSYC 3050 : PSYC 3030 Test 2
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French instead: retroactive interference retro = backwards, study french, study spanish, then take a french test and begin to recall, capacity of stm. Spanish instead: george miller (1957): magic number 7 +/- 2, miller noticed a pattern of behavior. Around trials 6 and 7, everyone reached about the same level of performance. Andre; people who identified with andre were able to recall more details about jack than people who identified with jack were able to recall about andre this is due to negativity. Implicit memory: explicit: subjects learn material and try to reproduce it later (recall, recognition, differentiate old vs. new) 1: participants read list of non-famous names: pt. Memory is optimized by retaining the gist of the story: reconstructing memory, we constantly relate new experiences to past beliefs. If they could not remember an event, half the participants were asked to imagine the event and describe in to the experimenter.
