PSYCH 1F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Daniel Tammet, Hermann Ebbinghaus, Long-Term Memory
22 Sep 2016
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Facts about the brain man daniel tammet. Understand the factors that improve memory performance. Understand the form or presentation that memory takes. Visual strategies e. g. knuckle month = month with 31 days. Can organize info in arbitrary way or in more meaningful way, the latter leading to better memory. Understand how much information we can hold in memory. People can remember about 7, plus or minus two items. People can organize or chunk info in different ways allowing more info to be stored in memory. Memory is only limited by the way you organize the to-be remembered items. Assumes that memory is composed of both short and long-term storage systems. Short-term buffer operates similar to ram on a computer. Stimuli/input short term memory (rehearsal) long term memory. Has input devices, short-term storage devices, long term storage devices. Encoding phase participants learn or are exposed to a list of items.
