Year 12 · WACE / Psychology
Flashcards and recall.
Make a short deck from material you need to recall without notes.
Try this with Psychology
- Write one prompt per card. Use definitions, explanations or examples from your current topic.
- Answer aloud before turning the card. Split a card if it asks for several unrelated facts.
- Set aside missed cards and revisit them in a later session.
Recall topics
- How do reception, transduction and transmission differ?
- Why is interpreting a smoke alarm as danger perception rather than sensation?
- What are the three operations involved in perception?
- What does an ambiguous figure demonstrate about perception?
- Why can phone checking reduce learning even when every line was seen?
- What is selective attention?
- How does divided attention usually affect two controlled tasks?
- Why does change blindness not prove that no visual processing occurred?
- How could detection sensitivity be separated from guessing?
- What conclusion follows if distraction lowers delayed comprehension in a randomised study?
- Which stores and control processes appear in the multi-store model?
- How do iconic and echoic sensory memory differ?
- What does superior immediate partial report suggest about sensory memory?
- Why can chunking increase apparent short-term capacity?
- How can a filled delay test the source of the recency effect?
- How do episodic, semantic and procedural long-term memory differ?
- Why does failed free recall not prove a long-term trace is absent?
- How do maintenance and elaborative rehearsal differ?
- What does Molaison’s mirror-drawing improvement challenge in the model?
- What is a precise limitation of the multi-store model?
- What is the central executive’s role?
- What two functions make up the phonological loop?
- Why does articulatory suppression reduce immediate verbal recall?
- What does the word-length effect support?
- What does the visuospatial sketchpad process?
- Why should spatial tapping disrupt mental rotation more than digit repetition?
- What problem did the episodic buffer address?
- Why is the episodic buffer not episodic long-term memory?
- What pattern is selective interference?
- Why is the central executive a theoretical limitation?
- What memory function is strongly associated with the hippocampus?
- What pattern defines anterograde amnesia?
- How does the amygdala influence memory?
- Why can a vivid emotional memory still be inaccurate?
- What learning roles are associated with the cerebellum?
- What surgery produced Henry Molaison’s major memory impairment?
- Which of Molaison’s functions were impaired and spared?
- Why was Molaison’s mirror-drawing result theoretically important?
- Why can Molaison’s case not isolate the hippocampus perfectly?
- What is a dissociation in memory research?
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