PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Frederic Bartlett, Hermann Ebbinghaus, Short-Term Memory
10 Feb 2016
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Unit 1: introduction to memory: memory is the fundamental cognitive mechanism, that allows you to encode, store and retrieve information. In terms of data, it is assumed that stored data is identical to inputted information and retrieved data is identical to inputted information. where as memory is, personal details and interpretations and retrieved memory may be altered or lost. The importance of cues: as two friends banter back and forth, one memory triggers another, shaping the ow of the conversation, ex. Testing our hypothesis: during the encoding phase, a subject learns a list of items, word, or pictures, if a researcher presents the same lost of items to two different groups. She explicitly asks the experimental group to learn the presented items, while a control group is distracted. Later, during the retrieval phase, subjects are tested for their memory of the items presenting during the encoding phase.
