PY 101 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Suggestibility, Gender Identity

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PY 101
• Professor: Evan Kennedy

Document Summary

Chapter 7: memory 11 questions: consolidation. Lose memory over time: memory stages. Working: what is going on right now. Sensory: 30th of a second; very brief: levels of processing. What makes it easy/hard to remember things. The more levels you can process something on, the better you will remember. If you can make something mean something to you, you will remember it better. Processing in different parts of the brain: memory strategies. Placing words in a memory palace (mentioned in the book) Cast yourself in a favorable role in your memory. Persistence: in ptsd, you can"t not forget about a specific memory. Memories that you would rather forget but you cannot stop dwelling on it: networks of association. How things in our brain are organized. You store memory based on what they mean. The word star is stored close to where we store shiny : suggestibility. The way the question in phrased affects the way that we answer.