The information we store in our long term memory about our environment and how it works makes up our knowledge base. Thinking is the use of knowledge to achieve a goal, eg  perceiving the environment,  or communicating, or problem solving. We store knowledge in the form of a mental representation, which is a memory of details or events or people or ( Read more... )

( Motivation - Instincts, Arousal, Drives, and Incentives; Hunger )

( Sensory memory, Short-term memory, Long-term Memory, Working memory, and Central Executive Theory. Retrieval, Forgetting, and Accuracy of Memory. )

With Toki as a constant example of all the theories XDD

( Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning, and Social Learning/Modeling. )

Goals of Psychological Research

The first goal of psychology is to describe behavior. This involves the observation of events and the identification of correlation between behaviors.

The second goal is to predict behavior - the prediction of an event's occurrence based on the relationship between the behavior and frequency of it.

The third goal is to ( Read more... )

I'm going to be typing up my Psych notes for my exam in here. If you're interested, have a read, you might learn stuff.

Origin of Psychology

Psychology has it roots in philosophy and medicine, beginning in Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Its formal birth would be the establishment of the first psychology lab in Leipzig, Germany, in 1879, by Wilhelm ( Read more... )

SCHIZOPHRENIA

- 1 to 2% of population affected
- Not the same as multiple personalities
- Person loses connection with reality.
- appears in adolescent/young adulthood
- affects men and women equally
- Chronic - lasts through a lifespan, signs and symptoms may decline with age
- Stigma - misconceptions about condition affects career, relationship

Positive ( Read more... )

What is abnormal?

- strays from norm
- deviates
- outlyers (bell curve)
- statistical infrequency
- personal distress, causes suffering
- level of impairment

History of Mental Illness

- Cures used to be painful and idiotic
- believed to be a result of physical affliction
- a sign of devil - medieval ages
- burned as heretics or witches
- cast into asylums, ( Read more... )

God, why can't I just have some fucking normalcy in my life?

Information about environment and how it works -> stored in long-term memory  = knowledge base

Recall details of events or people that are not present -> mental representations

Thinking --> two classes of metal representation -> (1) sensory aspects of object and (2) meaning of object

VISUAL

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Explicit and Implicit Memory

Explicit - conscious use of memory (searching for info)

Implicit - unconscious use of memory (riding a bike)

THREE-STAGES MODEL OF MEMORY

Sensory, short term, long term

Sensory memory - visual, audio - stores brief sensory impressions

Short term - holds information, but limited capacity and duration abt 30 secs)

Long term - ( Read more... )