PSYC 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge, Reading Education In The United States, Mnemonist

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 221
• Professor: Richard Wright

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Memory is malleable, we are continually reconstructing it. Oral tradition of passing down knowledge (before the printing press and books) Method of loci: if u want to remember something u pair thing in the room to things u want to remember. When listening to a speech, people remembered parts by assigning parts of speech to different parts of the amphitheatre. Locations are paired with things u want to remember, check the locations in particular order to remember. Simonides: poetry and method of loci, simonides used the method of loci when giving a speech at a lo(cid:374)g (cid:271)a(cid:374)(cid:395)uet ta(cid:271)le. Whe(cid:374) people got (cid:272)(cid:396)ushed (cid:271)y the (cid:396)oof a(cid:374)d (cid:271)odies (cid:449)e(cid:396)e(cid:374)"t ide(cid:374)tifia(cid:271)le, Simondes used the method to remember who was sitting where. Key word method: duck = potto, imagine a duck wearing a pot and stumbling around, me = rodea, imagine a u ina. Rodeo, then u remember the word for me is rodea.