PSYC 110 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Critical Role, Acetylcholine, Efferent Nerve Fiber
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*short-term memory refers to our ability to hold onto information we"re currently thinking about, attending to, or processing, actively. *procedural: memory for how we do things (motor skills and habits). *priming: our ability to identify stimulus more easily or quickly after we"ve encountered similar stimuli. *studies of brain damage provide remarkable existence proof. *maintenance rehearsal: repeating stimuli in their original form to retain them in short- term memory. Ex: whenever we hear a phone number and keep on repeating it. *elaborative rehearsal: linking stimuli to each other in a meaningful way to improve retention of information in short-term memory. *chunking: organizing information into meaningful groupings, allowing us to extend the span of short-term memory. *hierarchical organization: a way to structure an organization using different levels of authority and a vertical link, or chain of command, between superior and subordinate levels of the organization. Higher levels control lower levels of the hierarchy.
