ap psychology unit 07 - overview studying and building memories memory storage and retrieval...
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AP PsychologyUnit 07 - Overview
• Studying and Building Memories
• Memory Storage and Retrieval
• Forgetting, Memory Construction, and Memory Improvement
• Thinking, Concepts, and Creativity
• Solving Problems and Making Decisions
• Thinking and Language
Studying MemoryMemory Models:
Working Memory• Atkinson and Shiffrin Theory
– Sensory memory
– Short-term memory
– Long-term memory
Studying MemoryMemory Models:
Working Memory
• Modified version of the three-stage processing model of memory–Working memory
Building Memories: Encoding
Dual-Track Memory: Effortful Versus Automatic Processing
• Explicit memory
• Effortful processing
• Automatic processing
• Implicit memory
Building Memories: EncodingDual-Track Memory: Effortful Processing and Explicit Memories:
Capacity of Short-Term and Working Memory
• Magic number is _____
–Plus or minus ____
• Chunking
Building Memories: EncodingDual-Track Memory: Effortful Processing and Explicit Memories:
Effortful Processing Strategies
Building Memories: EncodingDual-Track Memory: Effortful Processing and Explicit Memories:
Effortful Processing Strategies• Mnemonics
–Define
–Examples
Building Memories: EncodingDual-Track Memory: Effortful Processing and Explicit Memories:
Effortful Processing Strategies
• Hierarchies
Building Memories: EncodingDual-Track Memory: Effortful Processing and Explicit Memories:
Distributed Practice• Overlearning
• Spacing effect
• Testing effect
Building Memories: EncodingDual-Track Memory: Effortful Processing and Explicit Memories:
Levels of Processing
• Shallow processing
• Deep processing
Building Memories: EncodingDual-Track Memory: Effortful Processing and Explicit Memories:
Making Material Personally Meaningful
• Making material meaningful
• Self-reference effect
Memory Storage
Retaining Information in the Brain
• True or False?
• Memories are NOT stored in one part of the brain.
Memory StorageRetaining Information in the Brain:
Explicit-Memory System: The Frontal Lobes and Hippocampus• Hippocampus
Memory StorageRetaining Information in the Brain:
Implicit-Memory System: The Cerebellum and Basal Ganglia
• Cerebellum
• Basal Ganglia
• Infantile amnesia
Retrieval: Getting Information OutRetrieval Cues:
State-Dependent Memory• State dependent memory
• Mood congruent memory
Retrieval: Getting Information OutRetrieval Cues:
Serial Position Effect• Serial position effect
–Recency effect
–Primacy effect
Memory Construction Errors
Misinformation and Imagination Effects
• Loftus memory studies
–Misinformation effect
Memory Construction Errors
Discerning True and False Memories
• Memory studies
• Children eyewitness recall
Problem Solving: Strategies and Obstacles
• Algorithms
• Heuristic
• Insight
• Confirmation bias
• Mental set
Forming Good and Bad Decisions and Judgments
The Representativeness Heuristic
• The Representative Heuristic
Forming Good and Bad Decisions and Judgments
The Availability Heuristic
• The Availability Heuristic
Forming Good and Bad Decisions and Judgments
Belief Perseverance and Framing
• Belief perseverance
• Framing
Language Structure
• Phoneme–English about ______ phonemes
–Learning another language’s phonemes
• Morpheme–Includes:
Language Development
• Receptive language
• Productive language
– Babbling stage
– One-word stage
– Two-word stage
– Telegraphic speech
Language Development
Explaining Language Development
• Chomsky: Inborn Universal Grammar–Language acquisition device
–Universal grammar
Language Development
Explaining Language Development
• Statistical Learning and Critical Periods–Statistical learning
–Critical (sensitive) period
Language and Thought
Language Influences Thinking
• Whorf’s linguistic determinism
• Bilingual advantage