Psychology Spring Semester Final Set

echoic memory

• believed that people are to some degree the conscious architects of their own personalities
• People have no interest in relationships with other people. They lack normal emotional responsiveness
• Sensory register that holds mental traces of sounds
• the condition of having an IQ score ranging from 35-49. No reading or math

implicit memory

• Kind of memory that consists of the skills that people have learned
• The psychologist who believed that people are basically motivated by a need to overcome feelings of inferiority
• people have delusions or frequent hallucinations, all relation to a single theme
• people are incoherent in their thought and speech and disorganized in their behavior

iconic memory

• reasoning based on a person's own moral standards of goodness
• people are incoherent in their thought and speech and disorganized in their behavior
• impose many rules & close supervision
• Sensory register that briefly holds mental images of visual stimuli

Anterograde amnesia

• People desire relationships with other people, but they are prevented from forming these relationships by tremendous fear of the disapproval of others
• Memory loss from trauma that prevents a person from forming new memories
• personal ways we view the world
• Intellectual level at which a person is functioning

Episodic memory

• children begin to value themselves on the basis of their physical appearance and performance in school
• Car crash film. Different wording of question caused different responses. Hit vs. smashed.. Which schema people used (hit or smashed) influenced how they mentally reconstructed the crash
• Kind of memory that consists of specific events
• People experience a change in or loss of physical functioning in a major part of the body for which there is no known medical explanation

Eidetic imagery

• represents basic drives. It demands pleasure through instant gratification and pays no attention to laws, social customs, or the needs of others.
• Ability to remember visual stimuli over long periods of time. What we think of as photographic memory
• People desire relationships with other people, but they are prevented from forming these relationships by tremendous fear of the disapproval of others
• Babies turn toward stimuli that touch their cheeks or the corners of their mouths

Retrograde amnesia

• Memory loss of the events leading up to a traumatic event
• impose many rules & close supervision
• Kind of memory that consists of specific events
• the psychologist who identified 9 mental abilities that make up intelligence

Memory

• The process by which we recall experiences, information, and skills
• Ex: the young hero, the hostile brother, nurturing mother, the wise old man, wicked witches, themes of rebirth or resurrection
• an immobile, expressionless, coma-like state associated with schizophrenia
• impose many rules & close supervision

Encoding

• the memory process that translates information into a form in which it can be stored.
• these children have higher risk of developing psychological problems like Anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, aggressive behavior
• Believed people are basically motivated by a need to overcome feelings of inferiority
• experience some type of psychological disorder

Storage

• The memory process by which we maintain encoded information over a period of time
• believed that people are to some degree the conscious architects of their own personalities
• Ideas & images of the accumulated experience of all human beings
• memories are recalled better when the mood in which they were originally encoded is recreated