Definitions

[ecvkcuf]

Hey guys.. for the psychology exams do we need to know exact definitions or can it differ from the textbook? Because it seems to me that the psychology textbook, teachers and examiners expect us to learn information deeply using elaboration rehearsal but then they contradict themselves by expecting exact definitions?

So will we loose marks for not saying the exact definitions?

[yearningforsimplicity]

It doesn't have to be exact but it has to be pretty close - there are certain key terms or components they look for in a definition I think, so you'd have to make sure you include those if you can't remember the definition word-to-word

E.g. In a definition of "change blindness", you couldn't just say that it's a "perceptual anomaly which causes viewers to not be able to detect large changes in a visual scene" but you'd also have to mention that it's caused by a "brief visual disruption" of some sort and if possible incorporate an example of such a disruption into the definition itself