PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes -International Standard Book Number

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Harvey Marmurek

Document Summary

Textbook: psychology tenth edition in modules authored by david g. myers. Process of retrieving memory follows a similar principle like following the path of a spider and how the web was created memories are held in storage by a web of associations. Priming: after losing his sight, john hull described difficulty in recalling details; often associations are activated without our awareness. William james referred to it as priming wakening of associations; memoryless memory or invisible memory without your conscious awareness: context-dependent memory: putting yourself back in the context to recall (what was i watching) Serial position effect: why we have large holes in our memory of a list of recent events; spent more time rehearsing the earlier names than the later ones. Priming is the activation (often without our awareness) of associations. Seeing a gun, for example, might temporarily predispose to interpret an ambiguous face as threatening or recall a boss as nasty.