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The document outlines key concepts related to a psychology practical focused on memory, including definitions, factors affecting memory, and specific phenomena such as retroactive and proactive inhibition. It references Hermann Ebbinghaus's experiments and introduces terms like primacy effect, recency effect, and span of memory. Additionally, it discusses the creation and examples of non-sense syllables used in the practical.

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The document outlines key concepts related to a psychology practical focused on memory, including definitions, factors affecting memory, and specific phenomena such as retroactive and proactive inhibition. It references Hermann Ebbinghaus's experiments and introduces terms like primacy effect, recency effect, and span of memory. Additionally, it discusses the creation and examples of non-sense syllables used in the practical.

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Psychology Viva

●​ What is the aim of the practical?


●​ What is memory?
●​ What materials have you taken to do the practical?
●​ What are non-sense syllables?
●​ How did you make rules of making non-sense syllables?
●​ Give 1 example of non-sense syllable.
●​ What are the factors of memory?
●​ What is retroactive inhibition?
○​ Backward mode of forgetting
●​ What is the other type of inhibition?
○​ Proactive Inhibition (forward mode of forgetting)
●​ Formula of retroactive inhibition?
○​ (𝐶 − 𝐸/𝐶 × 100)
●​ What is primacy effect?
○​ Remembering the first portion of the list
●​ What is recency effect?
○​ Remembering the last portion of the list
●​ Which portion do we tend to forget?
○​ Middle portion due to special positioning effect
●​ Who was the first person to experiment this?
○​ Hermann Ebbinghaus (curve of forgetting)
●​ What is span of memory?
○​ Number of correct recognition of the first trial of the first list.

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