[PSYC 345] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 102 pages long Study Guide!
29 Nov 2016
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The generation effect (jacoby, 1978; slamecka & graf, 1978: study. Implications for you: respond to questions verbally, write info down/taking notes/summarizing passages in own words, studying with other people/teaching others, thinking actively in class. 10 minutes: rest, distractor test, recall the story. 15-30 min later: wakeful rest >> distractor. 7 days later: wakeful rest >> distractor, 2 weeks later, wakeful rest >> distractor. Implications for you: sleep or rest after study, get lots of sleep (long sleep bouts w plenty of rem sleep) How do we make sense of visual input: see person in hallway: perceptual discrimination (is it a person), gender distinction, emotional/social distinction, memory processes (do you know this person) Transformation our representation of world is active construction involving reduction and elaboration (1) reduction = info is lost (2) elaboration = add to sensory input: memory, storage and recovery of info.
