PSYC 1100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Visual System, Elizabeth Loftus, Episodic Memory

• School: UConn
• Department: Psychological Sciences
• Course: PSYC 1100
• Professor: Eric Lundquist

Document Summary

Psychology 1100 final exam review session (-70mv is resting potential) Trace consolidation: the way short term memory must exist in your brain, is what"s on. Implicit memory: unaware memory your mind right now. Long term memory: stuff you know that you"re not thinking of right now. Trace consolidation makes it so you can bring information from long term memory into short term memory. Through elaborative encoding, you"re committing short term memory and making a permanent pattern out of it to commit to ltm. Now you can bring forth info in the ltm to. Forming ltm forms a structural pathway in the brain. Traces on information you"ve associated with stimulus lead you to the actual anchored stimulus in your brain. Visual experiences leads to sensation of seeing colors. (certain wavelengths transmit the color blue) Perception: knowing what you"re seeing (ex: blue shirt) Distal stimulus: the thing you"re receiving (ex: dog, tree) Proximal stimulus: projection of the stimulus onto the retina.