Models o' memory
A model developed as a criticism of the multi store memory model.
Mental representations that organize our knowledge, beliefs and expectations.
What is schema theory?
The tendency to focus on information that supports a pre-existing belief and ignore information that can potentially contradict it.
What is confirmation bias?
i was a girl in the village doing alright
then i became a princess overnight!
the largest mammal in the world
what is the blue whale?
The component responsible for allocating resources between the visuospatial sketchpad and the phonological loop in the WMM.
What is the central executive?
Mental representations about sequences of events.
What are script schemas?
The mental discomfort, stress or psychological tension experienced when a person holds two or more contradictory beliefs, values or attitudes.
Que es cognitive dissonance?
somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me
i aint the sharpest tool in the sheeeeed
the process by which plants make their food using sunlight
what is photosynthesis?
Investigated the serial position effect (with and without interference from a filler activity). Support for the MSMM.
What was Glanzer and Cunitz (1966)?
An investigation into the influence of schema on the retrieval of information from long term memory. The homebuyer and burglar study.
What is Anderson and Pichert (1978)?
Hypothetical systems of thinking that describe the relationship between intuitive thinking and rational analysis.
What are system one and system dos?
honey honey, how you thrill me
aha honey honey
my favorite color (ill accept two answers)
what is orange? or blue?
Strengths - Explanatory
Weaknesses - Complicated and hard to test. Also limited to short term memory.
Mental representations about ourselves.
What are self-schemas?
Investigated the influence of the way a decision problem is framed on decisions in scenarios involving risk.
What is Tversky and Kahneman (1981)?
hello from the other siiiiiiiiiide
i must have called a thousand tiiiiiiiiiiiiimes
world wide web
what does www stand for?
Strengths - simple, few components
Weaknesses - structure over process, claims that the only mechanism for transfer of information from STM to LTM is rote rehearsal, only explains flow in one direction, assumes that STM and LTM are unitary stores.
What are the strengths and weaknesses of the MSMM?
Investigated the effects of context on comprehension and memory of text passages. Context before, after or none.
What is Bransford and Johnson (1972)?
The researchers predicted that, if decision-making really adapts to emotion, people who make choices involving emotionally difficult trade-offs will:
What is Luce et al (1997)?
hode, skulder
kne og tå, kne og tå
what is this?