things to go over psych 2

Semantic Clustering

people organize information based on meaning rather than order

ex: when told words such as fork, cat, napkin, cow, knife you would organize it like fork, napkin, knife, cat, cow

Observer Perspective

Episodic memory retrieval where you “see” yourself in past events from the view of an outsider

Distance Effect

You’re quicker to acknowledge a canary is a bird rather than a canary is a mammal because canary and bird are directly linked and canary and mammal are two steps away. It takes you longer to travel in your mental network the more links are needed.

McClelland article

People are fastest at verifying category membership act the highest level of the hierarchy

Procedural Knowledge includes

priming, habits, conditioning (NOT semantic knowledge)

Patient H.M. did NOT demonstrate a dissociation between _____ memory and ______ memory

semantic and episodic

Working memory

cognitive system with limited capacity, things such as reading, mental math, keeping a phone number

When testing word recall after a delay, which effect of the serial position curve disappears

recency

utilization behavior

using an object in your environment simply because its present

ex: a person automatically picks up a pen to draw on paper