PSYC 3265 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Frontal Lobe, Ecological Validity, Carl Wernicke
15 Sep 2017
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Ebbinghaus (1885) is credited with being the first person to scientifically study memory. Prior to ebbinghaus relatively little was written about about memory. However people did wrote about factors affecting memory performance. Scientific study of memory - asked a question and collected data to find answers. Proposed laws of associationism. most important is the law of contiguity -- two events or experiences occurring closely in time will come to be associated with each other. The recall of one event will often enable you to recall the second event, if that will become associated. information. So they studied mnemonics - ways to improve your memory. Romans were less interested in science, but how memory can help them. Mnemonics generally remember something new by pairing it with already known. Developed the method of loci - in this method, a person places items to be. Ebbinghaus (1885) published memory: a contribution to experimental psychology.
