PSY 2130 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Senile Plaques, Tachycardia, Situation Two
3 Apr 2016
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Motivation is key, capacity is unlimited: types of ltm. Declarative memory = facts two types: episodic- biographical events in your life (16th birthday party, semantic- general knowledge, how world works, something most know(ex. Name the capitol of iowa, 50 states, we know what a cat looks like) Shoot basketball, opening soda can: forgetting in ltm. Can be due to lack of rehearsal. If you don"t use it youll lose it. To help with encoding/ rerehearsing ltm (increase duration/ decrease decay): practice-massed vs. distributed. Massed practice- cramming (lots of practice in short amount of time) Distributed- go through notes every day, rehearsing regularly: specificity- state dependent learning. When you learn things in certain environment, you have better recall in same environment. The state you"re in can help you retrieve memory. When you"re in a bad mood, you start remembering other negative memories/events. To help with retrieval, there are: retrieval cues: Categorical clustering- like chunking (take categories and list items underneath those)
