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Psy 100 Test 3
Chap 6 and Chap 8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Encoding | Change information sensed into electrical signala |
| Storage | Stored in the brain (cortex) |
| Retrieval | Bring memory into conscious awareness on command |
| Three steps in processing memories | Encoding, Storage, Retrieval |
| Memory OCCURS in three stages: | Sensory Memory, Short-Term Memory, Long-term Memory |
| Sensory Memory | Awareness - Sees/hears 0.75 |
| Short Term Memory | What youre concentrating on now |
| Long Term Memory | Permanent memories |
| Two types of long term memories | Declarative, Procedrual |
| Declaritive long term memory: | Memory can be expressed in words |
| Two types of Declarative Memories | Semantic and Episodic |
| Semantic Memory | General knowledge about to world |
| Episodic | Memories of life |
| Procedural Long Term Memory | Memories of how to preform a skill (Cerebellum) |
| Founding Father of memory research | Herman Ebbinghaus |
| Method of Saving (Ebbinghaus) | Relearning - Faster the 2nd time |
| Forgetting Curve (Ebbinghaus) | Decreases from 100-60% in 8 hours Decrease from 60-20% in 30 days |
| Serial Position Effect (Ebbinghaus) | Items near the beggining and end are more easier to be recalled than in the middle |
| Rehearsal | Practive / study / Repeat information |
| Maintenance rehearsal | Repeat info to keep only in short term memory |
| Rote Rehersal | Try to put info into long terrm memory with no intention to meaning |
| ElaborativeRehearsal | Try to put memory into long term memory by comparing it to something you already know |
| Context Dependent Memory | Being in the same location as when memory was stored |
| State Dependent Memory | If its the same as when memory was stored, recall is better. (Drugs/Caffeine) |
| Massed Practice | Cram study |
| Spaced Practice | Many short study sessions (Better) |
| Normal Forgetting | Most credible interference theory - New info confuses us |
| Proactive Inference | New info suffers |
| Retroactive Inference | Old info suffers |
| False Memories | Constructed memories |
| Confabulation (Memory Disturbances) | What seems logical What we wish was true Misinformation effect (People correcting your memories) |
| Recovery of repressed memories | Rare Events before 4y.o are not retrievable (Good Or Bad) Events after age 4 are rememberd (Good or bad) |
| Amnesia | Forgetting (Two Types) |
| Retrograde Amnesia | Forget your past |
| Anterograde Amnesia | Cant form new long tem memories Accident or high fever |
| Alzheimers | Death of Acetyldeoline Celss in Cortex and Hippocampus |
| Two sources of Motivation | Nature and Nurture |
| Nature Motivation | Instinct/drive |
| Nurture | Expectancy Theories (Rewards) |
| Abraham Maslow hierachy of needs | Bottow to Top: Biological Needs (Food) Safety (shelter) Belonging (Emotional) Esteem (Success) Self Actualization (Being all you are) |
| Basic Motivation Needs | Physiological (Food) Safety (Shelter) |
| Psychological Needs | Belonging and love Esteem |
| Self-fulfillment Needs | Self Actualization |
| The Yerks - Dodson Law | Moderate "Arousal" Produces best performance |
| Complex Task | Task not practiced much |
| Dominant Task | A task well practiced and known |
| Hunger Motivation | What Makes you hungry |
| Nature Hunger Motivation | (Internam cues) Empty Stomach Low Blood Preasure Preference for unhealthy food |
| Nurture Hunger Motivation | (External Cues) Sight/smell of food Portion Size Cues about how much you have eaten Availability |
| Set Point | What your DNA thinks |
| Lateral Hypothalamus (LH) | Hunger |
| Ventromedial Hypothalamus | Full |
| Anorexia | >80% of minimal Obsessed with weight |
| Bulimia | Binge and Purge |
| Binge Eating Disorder | Eat huge qualities |
| Eating Disorder Theories | Psycho dynamic Behaviorist Humanists Cognitive Biopsych |
| Psychodynamic | Neglect (Often by father) |
| Behaviorists | Rewards - complements attention |
| Humanist Eating Disorder | Gap too large between ideal self and current self |
| Cognitive Eating Disorder | Social Learning (Watching T.V) |
| Biopsych | Underactive Lateral hypothalamus |
| Sex motivation Nature | Evolution |
| Sex Motivation Nurture | Upbringing Peer Influence |
| Love Maps | Attraced to opposite sex parent |
| Sexual orientation (No nurture theories) | Exposure or lack of Androgenic Hormones of a fetus |
| Exposed to Androgenic | Attracted to females |
| Aggression Motivation Nature | Willing to fight for food |
| Aggression Motivation Nurture | Upbrining Deindividuation (Mob Effect) |
| Stages of Grief | (DABDA) 1. Denile 2. Anger 3. Bargaining (Prayer) 4. Depression 5.Acceptance |
| Original theory of emotion | James Lange Physical response (Crying) comes first and the emotional response (To feel sad) comes second |
| Cannon bard theory | Cry and feel sad same time |
| Schacter- singer | 1. Arousal (Fight or FLight) 2. Survey scene) funeral home |
| Modern changes to sage of grief | (DYADA) Disbelief Yearning Anger Depression Acceptance |
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