PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Memory Rehearsal, Long-Term Memory, Hermann Ebbinghaus
12 Nov 2012
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Memory: the fundamental cognitive mechanism that allows us to store and retrieve info. O acts like a video camera which accurately preserves images and audio to be played back at a later time. O acts like a filing cabinet we create memory files that are stored in an organized folder system, which can be accessed to remember something. Frederic bartlett realized that all of these have something in common. While each does provide a useful way of thinking about memory in some regard, they are misleading. Each assumes that memory can store experiences in their original, undistorted form and that memory retrieval is a simple process. Cue-response: studied by behaviourists, one memory acts as a cue to trigger another memory. Early researchers of memory were heavily influenced by the behaviourists, so it"s not surprising that early focus of memory research concerned how cues interact with encoding and retrieval mechanisms of money.
