psychology hw 2
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1.Describe a time when you used short-term memory today. Explain how long you actually
retained the information. How did you encode it? Explain how much you remember now.
Describe how long-term memory is helping you read this quiz question. If you did not
understand the meanings of these written words could you read this quiz at all? Explain
other examples of how you used LTM this week.
2.Thoroughly explain Curve Forgetting and Encoding Failure. Site at least two personal
examples for each.
3.Identify at least one problem you have solved mechanically. Now identify a problem you
solved by understanding. Did the second problem involve finding a general solution or a
functional solution? Or both? Describe the heuristics you used to solve the problem? State
the most insightful solution you’ve ever come up with. Did it involve selective encoding,
combination, or comparison? Explain in detail a time when you overcame functional
fixedness to solve a problem?
4. State and explain the Stages of Creative Thought. For each stage use personal
examples of your experience in detailed description.
5. Explain the three (3) types of motives. Use personal and detailed examples to
support your explanations and ideas. Describe the internal and external factors
in hunger and obesity.
6. Explain the stages of Coping with Test Anxiety and state 2 personal examples
to support this explanation.
7. Thoroughly explain the James-Lange Theory of emotion, The Cannon-Bard theory of
emotion, and Schachter’s Cognitive Theory of Emotion.
