PSYCH 1F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Hermann Ebbinghaus, Long-Term Memory, Filing Cabinet
13 Mar 2017
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Cognitive psychologists are interested in exploring thoughts, representations and mental processes that make humans unique, sentient beings. Memory: the fundamental cognitive mechanism that allows you to encode, store, and retrieve info. Video camera that accurately stores visuals and audio to be played back at a later time. Filing cabinet: we create memory files that are organized in a folder system, which can later be accessed to remember something. Computer: specialized components are responsible for handling different memories at different times. Fredric bartlett critiqued the memory metaphors, saying that they are misleading as they simplify memory as perfectly stored and easily retrieved. Data: stored data is identical to inputted info. Memory: stored memory includes personal details and interpretations. Psychologists study how memory is acquired, encoded, stored, and retrieved. One memory can act as a cue to signal another memory into consciousness. Early work on memory noted how each memory cue is linked to the cue before it.
