Psych Concepts

Levels of processing

deep vs shallow encoding, specificity principle, spacing effect, representational models

working memory

active manipulation of info

Short term memory

temporary, passive storage

Long term memory

vast, structural knowledge

Daniel Schaters 7 sins of memory

Transience, absent-mindedness, suggestibility, bias, forgetting, persistence, misattribution

Patient HM

had epilepsy and had part of hippocampus removed this impaired long term but spared working memory

Patient KF

amnesia this impaired working memory but spared long term

2 types of knowledge in long term memorie

procedural, declerative

2 ways knowledge is retreived (LTM)

implicit, explicit

2 types of prospective memory (LTM)

intent, content

2 types of declerative knowledge (LTM)

semantic, episodic

2 types of explicit memory (LTM)

recognition, recall

what are the 2 functinos of consciousness

monitoring, controlling

neuropsychological basis of consciousness

hind brain and mid brain structures are involved mainly reticular regions, pons and medulla

what are the 3 functions of attention

controlling behaviour and the content of consciousness, orienting to sensory stimuli, maintaining alertness

active mode of attention is

endogenous, goal driven, top down

passive mode of attention is

exogenous, stimulus driven, bottom up