PSYC 3265 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: George Mandler, Echoic Memory, Information Processing
17 Dec 2016
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Ebbinghaus (1885) conducted an intensive series of experiments on himself over a 2-year period, showing that it was indeed possible to plot systematic relationships between the conditions of learning and the amount learned. Ebbinghaus (1850 1909) was the first person to demonstrate that it was possible to study memory experimentally. Hebb (1949) interested in how interconnections among neurons influence the processing of information ( the. Hebb"s rule: neurons that fire together, wire together encoding of memories occurs as connections between neurons established through repeated use supported by more recent findings on consolidation, long. Model: a method of expressing a theory more precisely, allowing predictions to made and tested. Information processing approach to psychology became increasingly influential. Learning = process of acquiring new information. Memory metaphors dominant metaphor is literacy / filing cabinet metaphor (memories are things that are written down and stored awayin individual memory folders) led to notions of encoding, storage, and retrieval.
