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Final Exam
SAQ 9
11
Psychology
Undergraduate 1
12/04/2013

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Term

(1) memory is related to photograpgic reprentaions and (2) memory is fleeting autitory sensory images.

 

Definition

1. Iconic

2. Echoic

Term
How many bits of inforamtion can short term memory hold?
Definition

7 +/- 2

or

5,7,or 9

Term
List one area of the brain that is important for memory.
Definition

Hippocampus

Amygdala

Cerebellum

Term
(3) is the ability to retrieve info beyond conscious awareness.
Definition
3. Recall
Term
(4) memory is when you can indentify previously learned inforamtion (ie multiple choice test).
Definition
4. Recognition
Term
Briefly discuss one reason why we forget.
Definition

Storage decay the inforamtion is lost over time.

Retreival failure the inforamtion was lost 

Memory Construction

Encoding Failure

Cue dependent forgetting

Term

Define the study of social psychology.

 

Definition
Scientific study of how we feel,think, behave, and are influenced by other people.
Term
When I say someone else must be incompetent and unintelligent because they can't opperate a blackberry, yet I say I can't operate a blackberry because it is a new model, not at all related to my intelligence. The would be an example of the...
Definition
Fundamental attribution error
Term
Identify one reason that would contibute to helping someoneand one reaso that would contibuted to not helping someone.
Definition

Help: Guild, Similarity, Know what is best to do.

Not Help: Diffusion of Responcibilty, Don't know what is best to do, Group Mantality, Poor Mood.

Term
List two things that increase conformity.
Definition
Self esteem, situation, unanimity, status, threat to freedom, authority figure
Term

Extra Credit

Identify two stages for increasing memory when studying.

Definition
Repeatition, Sleep, Break up study time, Use a cue, Numonics.
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