AP Psychology-FRQ Practice: Kate has a big AP Psychology test coming up tomorrow
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Question
AP Psychology-FRQ Practice: Kate has a big AP Psychology test coming up tomorrow. She and several classmates get together to do some final studying. Discuss how each of the following concepts may help or hinder Kate and her classmates during their study session and/or subsequent testing experience. **Be sure to first define and then apply the concepts to the scenario. Be sure to explain how your application illustrates the given term.
1.Short term memory capacity
2.Serial position curve
3.Forgetting curve
4.Proactive
5. Parallel distributed processing model
6.Semantic versus visual encoding (comparison)
7. Context dependence memory
Explanation / Answer
Short Term Memmory Capacity- it refers to the amount of information that can be stored in short term memmory.
This information may be numbers, letters or words etc. These are also refered to as chunks
example: 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 = Seven discrete chunks
The serial position curve is used to plot the results of a free recall experiment. The x-axis of this curve indicates the serial position of to-be-remembered items in the list (e.g., the first item, the second item, the third item, and so on). The y-axis of this curve indicates the probability of recall for the item, which is typically obtained by averaging across a number of subjects
The serial position curve is a plot used in free recall experiment. x axis of this curve represents the serial position of the to be remembered item. e.g. 1st,2nd and 3rd item and so on.
Y axis shows the probability of the recall for a particular item obtained by averaging across the subjects.
Forgetting Curve represents the decline in memory retention with time. This graph shows how information can be lost lover time when there are no attempts to retain it , the stronger the memory, the longer period of time that a person is able to recall it. It was found from studies that humans tend to forget half the memories of a newly acquired skill in a matter of days or weeks if those are nor reviewed.
Proactive learning it is a form of active learning designed to minimize unrealistic assumptions and draw practical conclusions. In a real life situation, it is possible that we receive information from different sources with variable reliabilities. Proactive learning relaxes the assumptions involved and help us draw useful conclusions.
Parallel distributed processing model : It is a class of neurally inspired information processing models that attempt to model information processing the way it actually takes place in the brain.
following are the conclusions of the pdp modle.
a.) representation of information is distributed (not local) b.) memory and knowledge for specific things are not stored explicitly, but stored in the connections between units. c.) learning can occur with gradual changes in connection strength by experience.
context-dependent memory refers to improved recall of specific episodes or information when the context present at encoding and retrieval are the same. One particularly common example of context-dependence at work occurs when an individual has lost an item (e.g. lost car keys) in an unknown location. Typically, people try to systematically "retrace their steps" to determine all of the possible places where the item might be located.