Psychology 2135A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Temporal Lobe, Sentence Clause Structure, Parsley

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: John Paul Minda

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Prefrontal regions extract meaningful information from pictures and sentences: left prefrontal region verbal material, right prefrontal visual material. Nickerson & adams experiment demonstrated a lack of memory for visual detail: presented many versions of the us penny and sked students to say which one is the real. Us version of it: people don"t pay attention to detail in their every day life and were unable to do this well, when told to attend to detain and subsequently re-tested performance increased. People attend to and remember things they consider relevant and important in the visual scene. Memory is better for material if we are able to meaningfully interpret that material. Mnemonic technique memory assisting strategy that associates two elements if you have to remember things that done have much meaning (i. e. a phone number) it helps to associate them with something that is meaningful. People don"t remember exact physical details of what they see or hear but they remember its meaning.