The questions i had to research in the prac exam

Question 1

Personal fable and Imaginary audience

Answer 1

Personal fable: what you’re experiencing is unique to you and no one else is experiencing it
Imaginary audience: everyone is looking at you all the time and making judgements

Question 2

Sternbergs 3 main types of intelligence

Answer 2

Practical - information about getting on in the world, common sense or adapting to every day life
Creative - solve new problems quickly or solve familiar problems in an automatic way
Analytical - basic unit in intelligence is an information processing component

Question 3

what is selective optimisation with compensation

Answer 3

When losses occur, there is a reserve capacity from which to draw
When these reserves are depleted, people cope by reducing the range of tasks or by compensating for the loss of skills

Question 4

strategies used to improve memory

Answer 4

You can write things down because that creates a correlation between your memory and something physical
You can also get enough sleep per night so that your memory is able to function at its best

Question 5

bottom-up vs top down processing

Answer 5

bottom up is sensory input to thoughts and top down processing is thoughts to sensory

Question 6

Two types of amnesia

Answer 6

Retrograde and Anterograde amnesia. Retrograde: unable to remember events from your past. Anterograde: unable to create new memories but can remember the past

Question 7

What are the three different levels of information processing

Answer 7

Encoding, retrieval and storage