PSY 211 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Encoding Specificity Principle, Von Restorff Effect, Endel Tulving
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Chapter 6,7, and 8 long term memory, structure, special memories, and memory errors. Memory for personal experiences (specific time and place) Mem for specific events in a persons life. Ex: i remember going to starbucks with lindsay this morning. Mental time travel: person travels back in time in their mind to re-experience. Priming: change in response to a stimulus caused by the previous presentation of same or similar stim (brains do it automatically and once it spreads concepts) Memory tasks: don"t tell them testing memory. Priming- speeded response tasks, perception without awareness (subliminal perception) word stem completion. Not obvious to subject that they"re being tested. Recall- subject must generate an answer (fill in) Recognition - subject sees one or more options and then responds (multiple-choice test) Short term memory (stm; primary memory) is the information that is currently active. Long-term memory (ltm; secondary) is the information that is available but not currently active.
