Psychology 1000 Chapter 8, 285-303: chapter 8 - Memory II
5 Dec 2016
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Forgetting: pioneered the study of forgetting by testing it on himself, created over 2000 nonsense syllables. Meaningless letter combinations: measured memory by using a method called relearning, forgetting occurred more rapidly at first, and then slowly as time passed. Many memory failures result from forgetting information that we once knew well. At times, we may notice information but fail to encode it deeply because we turn our attention to. Tip-of-the-tongue (tot) phenomenon: we cannot recall a fact or name but we feel that we are on the verge of recalling it. Repression may protect us by blocking the recall of anxiety-arousal memories. Sigmund freud: often observed that his patients remembered traumatic experiences that had long seemed. Represents memory loss of events that occurred prior to the onset of amnesia. Memory loss for events that occur after the initial onset of amnesia.
