Psychology questions

[ecvkcuf]

Beast! Thanks.
:-)

[Hannah_Banana]

- What is the difference between proactive and retroactive interference? I always get confused between the two is there any way to remember it.

My teacher told us to remember the acronym PORN. This produced lots of giggles but it works for me. Proactive Old Retroactive New.
So with proactive, the old information is interfering with the ability to retain new information. Retroactive is when new information inferferes with the ability to retrieve previously learned informatin (old information).

So with the acronym whatever the next word is (Proactive - Old and Retroactive New) is the type information that is interfering.
I don't know if this helped or just confused you more but it works for me

[ecvkcuf]

LOL! That's pretty funny. Yes that helped, I can't forget it now!

[brenden]

- What do we need to know in terms of what the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems do in terms of their effects on the various organs, glands, and physiological activity (breathing, etc.)?

- What is a good way to remember the difference between anterograde and retrograde amnesia? I just look at antero which means forward.. so I assume that it effects memories which occured after the damage occured? How do you remember it.

- Would mnenmonics techniques such as acronyms, method of loci, narrative chaining, rhymes, etc. all be examples of elaborative rehearsal?

For  the Sympathetic NS you need to know that adrenalin production, heart rate, perspiration, glucose release and use of oxygen goes up and pupils dilate (get bigger).  The sympathetic NS also slows down digestion and relaxes your bladder and salivation decreases. (Basically, if you were being chased by a saber-tooth tiger, would you need a well oiled mouth and functioning bladder? Nope.)
The Para. NS does everything the opposite. It reverses the effect of the SNS and maintains homeostasis.

Well if retro means old = can't remember old memories. And for antero I always just think of H.M who couldn't form new memories. And I know he had anterograde amnesia. Therefore anterograde is can't form new lol.

Mnemonics are definitely a form of elaborative rehearsal as you're making meaningful associations between the think you need to learn (ie. a shopping list) and something already contained in your LTM (ie, a rhyme, 1 is a bun).

[vashappenin]

- What is a good way to remember the difference between anterograde and retrograde amnesia? I just look at antero which means forward.. so I assume that it effects memories which occured after the damage occured? How do you remember it.

just think of antero--> after, so memory loss of events that occur after the brain damage.

credit to Adrian's ConnectEd Lecture

[ecvkcuf]

In sleep deprivation when will our ability to perform simple tasks be effected while our ability to perform complex tasks not be effected?

[ecvkcuf]

What are good ways to memorise definitions? No matter how hard I try the definitions never stick in my head.. anyone got any tips?

[Limista]

In sleep deprivation when will our ability to perform simple tasks be effected while our ability to perform complex tasks not be effected?

Correct - short AND complex tasks will not be affected

[brenden]

What are good ways to memorise definitions? No matter how hard I try the definitions never stick in my head.. anyone got any tips?

Well, other than starting to learn them a few months ago, you could pick the thing you want to learn and the key words that are in that definition and rote learn them and fill in the blanks when you're in your exam. For example. If you don't know the Semantic Network theory, instead of memorising the definition you could write down "Semantic network theory. Connected nodes. Hierarchically structured" and remember those seven words. Once you know those it's easy to say "The semantic network  theory proposes that LTM are organised into a series of hierarchically structures, meaningfully linked nodes or çoncepts" (okay so not my greatest definition).

Also, people suffering sleep deprivation have a decrease in performance of simple tasks but remain the same for complex tasks.