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Exam 2 cognitive psy
Chapter 6, Brooklyn college, professor Stan
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Long-term memory | It is an archive than can collect memories of events and knowledge from a few seconds ago to as far back as we can remenber |
| Hippocampus role in memory | Important to form new long term memories |
| Primacy effect | Able to recall the first items in a list |
| Recency effect | Able to recall the last items in a list |
| The serial position curve | Indicates recalling of items are better at the end and begginging of a list. |
| Semantic memory | encoding- base on meaning |
| Episodic memory | Memory base on past events - long term |
| Implicit memory | We are not aware of. We learn from experience- Procedural memories |
| Explicit memory | Memories we are aware of. Episodic and semantic memories. |
| Wickens fruit experiement | it was design to see how proactive interference ( learning when something previously learn interferes with new learning. It reveal . after counting for 15 seconds how it had gone to ther STM, because they were able to encode the words they were release |
| Patient H.M | The removal of the hippocampus on both sides of the brain; no seizures , however, affected forming new long term memories, short term memory building was unaffected |
| Patient K.C | The damage to the parietal lobe, affected Short term memory , could not recall digits , however had, functioning long term memory- was able to make new LTM |
| Autobiographical memories | Has components of two diferent types of memories, such as Semantic and episodic, - We go to starbucks but we went there before 12 because its hard to get a sit before that- Episode+ facts |
| Propaganda Effect | Facts or events that you have been exposed previously,and as a consequence you might believe they are right -implicit because people might not actually rember- (unconscious) |
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