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Exam 1
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- 1Define memory.Connection to past and future.
- 2What did Plato and Aristotle think about memory?That it was like a wax tablet and was too loose in young age but too hard in old age.
- 3What was William James famous for?"father" of physiological psychology
- 4What was Wilhelm Wundt famous for?the first psychology laboratory
- 5What did Karl Lashley do?searched for the engram
- 6What is the "engram?"the place where memory exists in the brain
- 7How did William James divide memory?into primary memory and memory proper
- 8What are the three phases of memory?1. Acquisition
2. Consolidation
3. Retrieval - 9What is acquisition?learning and encoding
- 10What is consolidation?storage of memory
- 11What is retrieval?recall and test performance
- 12Learning and memory processes cannot be ______; their existence is _____.observed; inferred
- 13Learning is a set of processes initiated by _____. Memory is a _____ of that process.experience; product
- 14Explain the forgetting curve and how it was found.Ebbinghaus experiments with nonsense letters found it. It shows a curved, downward slope of retention interval (x axis) vs percent of recall (y axis).
- 15What is the single trace theory?it explains the forgetting curve by assuming the strenth of a single memory trace declines monotonically as a function of time between learning and the retention test
- 16What is the dual trace theory?it explains the forgetting curve results from two memory traces whose strength decays at different rates
- 17Psychologists study only the relationship between experience and ____. This means they DO/DO NOT directly manipulate or measure brain processes.behavior, do not
- 18slide 20lecture 1
- 19engram (definition per book)add
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