A PSY 450 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Long-Term Memory, Mirror Test, Generalized Anxiety Disorder

• School: SUNY Albany
• Department: Psychology
• Course: A PSY 450
• Professor: Heather Sheridan

Document Summary

Finding the right spacing: the longer you wait to practice retrieval, the better it is for memory. Find a good strategy to for how much space you need to practice; don"t cram. Slowing down to find the meaning: slow down the speed that you read the material, so you can think about meaning and elaborate in your mind to better understand and remember. Don"t let the words just slide through your brain dig deeper and pause to make it meaningful to you. Decide what"s important: if there"s 400 lecture slides, you will not have time to go over every single detail. The state that can be altered by taking psychotropic drugs or by mental illnesses such as depression and generalized anxiety disorder; Being aware of a particular external stimulus, such as an obstacle that you come up against, or of a mental state such as a memory or an emotion;