PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Hermann Ebbinghaus, Long-Term Memory, Forgetting Curve
28 Nov 2016
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Cognitive psychologists study how our mental processes make us sentient beings. Memory metaphors: video camera, filing cabinet, computer. Memory metaphors misleadingly simplify memory as perfectly stored and easily retrieved. Data: stored data is identical to inputted information. Memory: stored memory includes personal details and interpretation - retrieved memory may be altered or lost. Psychologists study how memory is acquired, encoded, stored, and retrieved. One memory can act as a cue to signal another memory into consciousness. Early work on memory noted how each memory cue is linked to the cue before it. Hermann ebbinghaus - word list experiment (cueing) Memory models involve an encoding phase, followed by a retrieval phase. The retrieval phases uses either a recall or recognition test for memory. Both test ability to remember items from encoding phase. Our ability to recall recently encoded information decreases rapidly over time. The multi-store model suggests that memory has a temporary and permanent storage (short term/long term memory)
