PSYC 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge, Derek Paravicini, Mnemonist

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 221
• Professor: Richard Wright

Document Summary

How information gets into long-term memory (ltm) The more elaborate and deeply processed something is, the more likely is that we will remember it - the memory trace will be stronger. For the longest time, before the printing press we had an oral culture. Information would be passed down from one generation to the next orally. There were no books, except handwritten ones (which would take forever to complete and were not widely distributed). We all use mnemonics and memory aids and they were particularly important in oral cultures (before the 1400"s) Used in mathematics and sciences to remember terms and to pass them down accurately from one generation to the next. Widely used in poems, scientific knowledge from early philosophy and early medical work before the printing press. Often found in long poems and orators were using different sorts of. Examples: (memory aids) cue cards, teleprompters, notes, rosary beads, and.