PSYC 1010 Chapter 7: Chapter 7 HUMAN MEMORY

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

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Chapter 7: human memory y there are two kinds of memory, semantic (memory for general information) and episodic (memory for personal events) y 1/7 canadians reported a significant disability and of those 15 & older. Encoding y the next in line approach: subjects tend to not recall much of what was said just before they take their turn to present. It also relates to when you meet someone and you forget their name in 30seconds because you re too busy sizing them up and deciding what opt say next. y attention: focusing awareness on a narrowed range of stimuli. With a few exceptions, you generally need to pay attention towards information you intend to retain. y cocktail party phenomenon: an egg. Is claudia at a party talking to a friend and filtering out all other conversations to focus on her friend. Then she suddenly hears her name in another conversation and starts focusing more on that.