7.2 vocab * Alluvial fan- a fan shaped deposit of sediment formed when a streams slope is abruptly reduced * Playa lake- a flat area on the floor of an undrained desert basin (playa) that fills and becomes a lake after heavy rain 7.2 outline * Weathering in Deserts: Although chemical weathering occurs in deserts‚ mechanical weathering is far more dominant in shaping desert landscapes. * Water in Deserts: In desert‚ water collects in streams and rivers that can deposit alluvial
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Short-term memory capacity will effect the success of her studying if she is studying last minute‚ as in right before the test. There is only so much that can be absorbed into the short term memory and if she crams everything in 5 minutes before the test‚ she will not remember everything. If she studies the night before this will not be as much of a problem as she will have time to rehearse the information. She will most likely only remember the things that she went over close to first and last.
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Brand salience Brand salience is the intention of buyers to think of the brand in a buying situation. It is determined by how many and how often the consumers think of the brand. Daye indicates that a strong brand tends to have higher brand salience while weak brand have little or even none of brand salience. (2010)Therefore‚ it is important for manager to concern about the brand salience to higher the chance of the brand being retrieved from memory by using cues in a buying situation. As salience
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Question 1 2 out of 2 points A man known as H. M. lost the ability to form new memories after an operation removed portions of his ____________. Answer Selected Answer: hippocampus Question 2 2 out of 2 points A mnemonic device is a ________. Answer Selected Answer: strategy that improves memory Question 3 2 out of 2 points Adrianna is trying to memorize the names of the bones in the hand. She had gone through a list of them when her phone rang. After she gets off
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Psychology Review Your dog barks every time a stranger’s car pulls into the driveway‚ but not when you come home. Reacting to your car differently is a sign of Discrimination Silvia used to play with balloons‚ when she tried to play with a balloon last week‚ it popped in her face and gave her quite a scare. Now bowing up a balloon is so scary she won’t try it. The pop is the unconditioned stimulus and the balloon is a conditioned stimulus. According to levels of processing approach to memory‚ thinking
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Psychology Notes – Memory Flow of information in memory: Encoding Storage Retrieval Key terms: Encoding: changing information so that it can be stored Storage: holding information in the memory system Retrieval: recovering information from storage Multi-store: the idea that information passes through a series of memory stores Sensory store: holds information received from the senses for a very short period of time Short-term store: holds approximately seven chunks of information for
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Describing Trace Decay Theory of Forgetting * Trace decay theory can be applied to explain forgetting from both STM and LTM. * It is based on the idea that information creates a neurological trace in the brain‚ known as an engram‚ when it is encoded. This means a change has occurred in the structure of the brain. * Hebb (1949) proposed that whilst learning is first taking place‚ the engram is very fragile and liable to disruption. It grows stronger and less likely to be destroyed the
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Abstract The aim of this examination is to duplicate Humphrey’s (2006) memory analysis titled Highlighting versus writing. The point of this examination is to test various systems for practice and find which one is the best to be utilized. The examination measures the impact of three techniques for retaining which is either writing or highlighting‚ which is the independent variable‚ on the quantity of words reviewed by the member‚ which is the dependent variable. The experiment that was replicated
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Thought Piece: Mnemonics As a student‚ it is always my mother’s interest to know how to help me achieve higher results by remembering more information related to exams. When it comes to the ability to remember‚ we should talk about ‘memory’. Memory is the nervous system’s capacity to retain and receive knowledge and skills; this system includes three main stages‚ which are encoding‚ storage and retrieval (Gazzaniga ‚ Heatherton. & Halpern‚ 2013). Actually‚ there are three types of memory
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“Group Minds” Critique The majority of people tend to view themselves as independent human beings. It is their belief that the responses they provide are based on their personal knowledge of the subject. However‚ in Doris Lessing’s article “Group Minds‚” Lessing discusses the lack of individualistic thinking that is present when people are involved in a group setting. In the article‚ Lessing describes how the pressures of the majority group almost always seem to overrule the minority’s decision even
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