PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Hermann Ebbinghaus, Nonsense Word, Frederic Bartlett
15 Nov 2016
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Memory is the fundamental cognitive mechanism that allows you to encode, store and retrieve information. Memory acts like a video camera which accurately preserves images and audio to be played back at a later time. Memory is like a filing cabinet; we create memory files that are stored in an organized folder system which can be later accessed to remember something. Memory is like a computer, where specialized components responsible for handling different memories at different times. History of research reveals that memory is subject to interpretation and reconstruction. Similar to cue-response mechanism studied by behaviourists, one memory acts as a cue to trigger another memory. Early resear(cid:272)hers of (cid:373)e(cid:373)or(cid:455) (cid:449)ere i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)ed hea(cid:448)il(cid:455) (cid:271)(cid:455) (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iourists so that"s (cid:449)h(cid:455) early focus of memory researched concerned how cues interact with encoding and retrieval mechanisms of memory. Cueing is an important concept in encoding specificity, by which encoding and retrieval are linked through cues.
