PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Forgetting Curve, Hermann Ebbinghaus
18 Nov 2014
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Image of a video camera! perhaps memory works like a video camera which accurately preserves images and audio to be played back at a later time. An older idea is the ling cabinet, where we organize and store memory in a folder system that we can access later. Image of a computer! specialized components are responsible for handling different memories at different times. Fredric bartlett (psychologist) realized that all of the above metaphors regarding human memory in some regard or another are misleading. Each metaphor assumes that memory can be stored undistorted and in their original form. Although it may seem accurate research says that memory is subject to interpretation and reconstruction. The basics of memory! importance of cues - one memory acts as a cue to access another memory. Encoding - a list of items, words, or pictures.
