PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 24-27: Motivation, Interference Theory, Availability Heuristic

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Myriam Mongrain

Document Summary

Memory: the persistence of learning through encoding, storage and retrieval. Memory olympians: participants in a world- wide memory competition view and then reproduce long strings of numbers, words, and cards. The competitors have an unusual capacity for focused attention, which they can enhance by blocking out distractions. 3 measures of retention: recall: the measure of memory that a person must retrieve information learned earlier. Fill-in-the blanks test: recognition: the measure of memory that person must only identify information learned previously. Multiple choice test: re-learning: a measure of memory that asses the amount of time saved when learning material again. Our speed at relearning also reveals memory. A memory researcher hermann ebbinghaus, used non-sense syllabus, practiced them and tested himself to test his memory. Tests of recognition and of time spent re-learning demonstrate that we remember more than we can recall. Psychologists create memory models to help us think about how our brain forms and retrieves memory.