WGU D570 COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY 458
FULL SOLUTION STUDY GUIDE
◉ Secondary Memory.
Answer: not consciously aware of long term memories unless try to
be, long term
◉ Chunking.
Answer: taking info that belongs together and grouping it so that is
it easier to remember
◉ Sensory Memory.
Answer: short duration store for sensory info
Echoic: auditory, 3-4 seconds
Iconic: visual, 1/10 second
Haptic: smell, 2 seconds
◉ Implicit Memory.
Answer: unaware of it, ex: how to tie a shoe
◉ Explicit Memory.
Answer: aware of it
,◉ Semantic Memory.
Answer: dates of events, details
◉ Episodic Memory.
Answer: pertaining to events in your own life
◉ Short Term Memory.
Answer: in hippocampus, info gets lost or stored in cortex, use
rehearsal or memory strategies to move to long term memory
◉ Long Term Memory.
Answer: stored in cortex, if need to remember something then
hippocampus retrieves info to bring to consciousness
◉ Ebbinghaus (1885).
Answer: used himself as a subject, memorized nonsense syllables
because if use real words it contaminates your memory, went back
and relearned lists, looked for methods of saving.
Learning curve: takes time to get it at first, then each subsequent
time gets better until a point when start forgetting
Retention Curve: over time you stop forgetting
, ◉ George Miller (1950s).
Answer: pioneer of cognitive revolution, thought that human mind
was interesting
Magical #7: plus or minus two, number of terms a person can hold in
short term memory
took people and gave them lists of varying lengths and most people
could remember 7 at a time
◉ Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968).
Answer: Standard model of memory:
◉ Brown (1958) Peterson (1959).
Answer: wanted to find out how long info could staying their
memory without rehearsal
subjects have to remember three letters and then count backwards
by three
info in short term memory decays over time, duration of short term
memory is 18 seconds, didn't take into account that counting is
interference
◉ Proactive Interference.
Answer: Each additional time you do something, performance
declines because info tried to remember on first trial is interfering
FULL SOLUTION STUDY GUIDE
◉ Secondary Memory.
Answer: not consciously aware of long term memories unless try to
be, long term
◉ Chunking.
Answer: taking info that belongs together and grouping it so that is
it easier to remember
◉ Sensory Memory.
Answer: short duration store for sensory info
Echoic: auditory, 3-4 seconds
Iconic: visual, 1/10 second
Haptic: smell, 2 seconds
◉ Implicit Memory.
Answer: unaware of it, ex: how to tie a shoe
◉ Explicit Memory.
Answer: aware of it
,◉ Semantic Memory.
Answer: dates of events, details
◉ Episodic Memory.
Answer: pertaining to events in your own life
◉ Short Term Memory.
Answer: in hippocampus, info gets lost or stored in cortex, use
rehearsal or memory strategies to move to long term memory
◉ Long Term Memory.
Answer: stored in cortex, if need to remember something then
hippocampus retrieves info to bring to consciousness
◉ Ebbinghaus (1885).
Answer: used himself as a subject, memorized nonsense syllables
because if use real words it contaminates your memory, went back
and relearned lists, looked for methods of saving.
Learning curve: takes time to get it at first, then each subsequent
time gets better until a point when start forgetting
Retention Curve: over time you stop forgetting
, ◉ George Miller (1950s).
Answer: pioneer of cognitive revolution, thought that human mind
was interesting
Magical #7: plus or minus two, number of terms a person can hold in
short term memory
took people and gave them lists of varying lengths and most people
could remember 7 at a time
◉ Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968).
Answer: Standard model of memory:
◉ Brown (1958) Peterson (1959).
Answer: wanted to find out how long info could staying their
memory without rehearsal
subjects have to remember three letters and then count backwards
by three
info in short term memory decays over time, duration of short term
memory is 18 seconds, didn't take into account that counting is
interference
◉ Proactive Interference.
Answer: Each additional time you do something, performance
declines because info tried to remember on first trial is interfering
