Lecture 1 Flashcards
1
Q
Psychomythology
A
Misconceptions and urban legends following psychology
2
Q
Where did the 10% of brain power myth come from?
A
A guy named William James
3
Q
What are two reasons to doubt the myth?
A
- Brain has been shaped by natural selection, uses up 20% of our calorie energy
- Evidence from clinical neurology
4
Q
What did Phineas Gage say about brain injury?
A
Brain injury = mind injury
Frontal Lobe damage changes person
5
Q
What is encoding?
A
Process of turning information into memory
Attention is important for encoding
6
Q
Encoding specificity
A
Remembering things under the conditions that we encoded it in
7
Q
Context-Dependant learning
A
enviromental conditions
