01:830:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Unconscious Mind, Memory Disorder, Mnemonic

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: Lawrence Jacobs

Document Summary

Chapter 7: memory: the key to using your memory is that your brain never loses anything. Once a perception or thought is place into your memory, it stays there forever: what we call forgetting is either the inability to recall stored info, or the failure to store info. Once info is stored in memory, it is never forgotten. Forgetting tends to begin in seconds unless rehearsal is permitted. Hermann ebbinghaus - founder of memory studies: hermann ebbinghaus studied his own ability to memorize new material, over 6 years, he memorized thousands of lists of nonsense syllables. A fill-in-the-blank test uses this method: recognition requires the person being tested to identify the correct item from a list of choices. Multiple-choice tests use this method: savings (relearning) method compares the speed that new material is learned to the speed of relearning of old material. Explicit memory is memory that we are aware we are using.