Repeating:

Short term: Remember 72 items

Long term: stays longer than short and seems to remain in

people with arteriolosclerosis

Retrieval cue First letter of a name or perfume

State dependent learning:

You were drunk when you left your car so you can't remember until you drink again

A. Memory trace -> fades with time

B. Interference

1.Retroactive - "retrieval" - after the fact something traumatic happened and the stuff was forgotten

2. Proactive - "encoding" (bad encoding), a car accident (before class) made you unable to encode anything in class

3. Repression - involuntary, rape caused subject to forget that week emotional state has blocked that memory from coming to consciousness.

 

Suppression - to purposely repress feelings

10 questions studied by avacrosism

Study before bed

make pictures

recreate events

Background

Phonemes= basic sounds

-b- -a- -t- -ch-

Morphemes = -ba- -bi- -ta-

Grammar = system of rules

1. semantics - rules we use to derive the meaning of the morpheme

2. Syntax - how we put words together to make a sentence

Language development is rapid

Age words

2 3 or 4

6 6000

10 months babies use different morphemes

1 year sing morphemes that make sense

2 years telegraphic "me go Mama"

3-4 grammar develops

1. Learn= behavior modally, imitation, why do children (good)

2. Genetic= predestined, predisposed to speak language, twins

Chimpanzee learn sign (picture) language

pinocchio (watio) elephant baby

swan (watio) water bird

watio was female and know 242 signs

she taught her sun 55 signs

Alfred-Binet

Franch develop technic to screen out mentally retarded kids

What a child would know at a particular age

mental age of 10 = avg. 10 general knowledge

Mental age 10 _{X 100 = IQ = 100}

Chronical age 10

IQ stands for Intelligence Quotient

Example Ma 7 _{X 100 = IQ = 70}

10

or Mental age 13 _{X 100 = IQ = 130 IQ}

Chronical age 10

IQ used to find abnormalities in certain areas

Intelligence test

WAIS - Weschles Adult intelligence scale

WISC - Weschler intelligence scale for children

Verbal General information

Comprehension

digit and span

simple arithmetic

Performance picture - picture arrangement block design object

I. Verbal

A. General information

1. culture - politics

2. easy - to - hard

B. Similarity

1. statue similar to democracy, both are symbolic

C. Arithmetic

1. word problems

D. Vocabulary

E. comprehension

1. reading and then answering questions on the reading

F. digit span 123-321

 

II. Performance

1. Picture

a. picture of a man without a nose

2. picture arrangement

a. Bird making nest, 4 pictures from twig to nest

3. Block design

blocks on the left are arranged to make the target diagram on the right

 

 

4. Object assembly

a. put pieces in certain place

b. eye hand and cognitive

5. Digit symbol

Achievement test - specific function

test needs to be standardised

give to large group of people and tests must be graded

must be reliable and vivid

Reliable: same results to same subject at different times

Vivid: measuring capability not felting or

Example cholera used to kill allot of people, lighting correlated with Cholera. Sewage caused cholera, Vocab most correlation with intelligence

 

Personality:

Study of the different characteristics of human beings

Extrovert = salesmen

Introvert = quiet

Trait theory - log lasting characteristics in people

shmuck in high school shmuck in life.