EASY
This is a person who partakes in an experiment.
Participant
What are the key words in an alternative hypothesis?
Significant difference...
What is priming?
The unconscious activation of associations that makes it easier to recognise and relate information
If you return to playing an instrument after many years and pick it up quicker than the first time learning, what type of remembering is this?
Relearning
What does your adrenal gland do?
Releases cortisol and adrenaline, causing fear, anxiety, and aggression
What type of memory is it called when remembering facts?
Semantic
What is the capacity of long-term memory?
Infinte (no limit)
What type of recall involves identifying the correct information among a list of incorrect information?
Recognition
What is the effect of extensive stress on encoding?
It can help the process, though too much can have the opposite effect.
Give three ways to help recall a bit of information during a test while stressed?
1) Take deep breaths
2) Exercise daily
3) study in a similar (stressful) situation
What is psychology?
The study of the human mind
In the Multi-Store Model (Atkinson & Shiffrin, 1968), what is the first stage of memory?
Sensory Memory
What part of the brain encodes memories?
The hippocampus
Give two reasons why the Stanford prison experiment was unethical
EG. Cause of harm, bribes (pay), unable to withdraw, no debriefing, overuse of deception, no informed consent
Define classical conditioning.
Associating two stimuli to elicit a response
What is an independent variable?
The variable that is manipulated by the experimenter
What part of the brain is responsible for long-term memory?
The hippocampus
What is state-dependent memory?
We tend to recall memories that match our current emotional state
How many pieces of information can short term meory store?
5 - 9 items (7 + or - 2)
What two theories explain why we forget?
Interference theory and retrieval failure theory
The ability of the mind to store and recall information is called...
Memory
According to the Ebbinghaus forgetting curve, what percentage of information is lost within the first hour?
50%
How long can a memory be held in short-term memory before decaying?
15 - 30 seconds
What are 4 of the 7 ethical considerations?
Answers can be:
Confidentiality, Voluntary participation, Withdrawal rights, Informed consent, Deception, No cause of harm, Debriefing
What did Phineas Gage's accident teach us about the mind?
Through the damage to his frontal lobe, we learnt that the frontal lobe is responsible for personality