Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Long-Term Memory, Delay Encoding, Iconic Memory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Michael Atkinson

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Rehearsal to keep it there, lose it or move it to long term memory. Info held for a fraction of a second. Forgetting by not rehearsing, so info is lost. Decay: material gets old over time, and fades. % words remembered vs. time some slept between, some after sleep group had a better memory than the sleep group. Maximum interference with words that sound the same. Trish: cant move from short term to long. Serial position curve: curve of % remembered to where a word is on the list. Better memory at stuff at beginning and end. With 30s delay, the position curve goes from u to an l. The engram: place of brain where memory is stored. Penfield"s data: probe brain to see if electric shock bring out memory. Putting things into concepts of what you know. Spreading activation: activation of one concept leads to activation of other ones. Thoughts the same as the mood you"re in.