Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Shelf Life, Working Memory, Clive Wearing

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Terry Biggs

Document Summary

No class jan. 5th, read for language jan 7th. Trace fades away quickly: visual icon, auditory echo. No rehearsal: info lost, forgetting. Rapidly lost unless we actively do something with it. Rehearsal used to hold information to be moved before we forget it. Decay: material just gets old: fades away over time. Interference: new material pushes old out: cannot hang on to information, acoustic coding. Maximal interference occurs when noises of words sound the same. People do memory tests after a significant amount of time, one group sleeping and one group awake. Asleep population performing decay (nothing else bothering them) Semantic coding no longer acoustic: code by meaning, words with similar meaning will generate interference. How to get info from stm into ltm: Active organizing: change stuff into meanings to find right place to store stuff. Evidence from cases of brain damage, e. g. clive wearing: hippocampus brain damage.