PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Encoding Specificity Principle, Chessboard, Processing Fluency
3 Feb 2015
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Memory: the world of thoughts, representations, and mental processes that makeup cognition, memory - the fundamental cognitive mechanism that allows us to store and retrieve information. Common memory metaphors: memory acts like a video camera which accurately preserves images and audio to be played back at a later time, an older idea is to think of memory as a filing cabinet. We create memory files that are stored in an organized folder system which can be accessed to remember something: computer metaphor of memory, with specialized components responsible for handling different memories at different times. Testing our hypotheses: psychologists rely on cognitive models to understand a complex cognitive function like memory. Later, during the retrieval stage, subjects are tested for their memory of the items presented in the encoding phase. The multi-store model - proposed by atkinson & shiffrin in 1968: the multi-store model assumes that memory is composed of both short and long- term storage systems.
