PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Long-Term Memory
11 Mar 2018
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Encoding interacts with attention to select items for memory. Even though you visually process info, you"re not attentionally processing it. All models for memory are flawed (video camera) We remember the first and last words in a list. False paradigm-we falsely assume words that we came up with. Storage of memories occurs through consolidation of neural changes. Retrieval accesses storehouse of knowledge to apply to present needs. Storage of memory is vulnerable to retention error. Recalling certain words to remember other things during a test. The longer the retention interval, the more likely you are to miss out on details. One group had 4 times as many opportunities to encode the story. They found that practice testing is better for long term memory. The group that practice tested lost less memory in comparison. Spacing study across days is better than cramming for the same study time. Enforced retrieval practice leads to durable learning in a real course.
