PSYC 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Long-Term Memory, Frontal Lobe, Endel Tulving
30 Oct 2014
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Looking at different places for the encoding of different information imagined [associated with the specified place] Used to remember specific things in a particular order. Use the same locations and in the same order. Remembering list of 25 words" - forgetting has decreased. Associated with the sound of the word. Psychology 210 - noir [scales of measurement] Perfect recall of 25 words after 27 years. Given a list of words 27 years ago. Memorized the city map of riga at age 5 [at the time, riga is the largest city in the baltic] Gou yan-ling - memorized 15000 phone numbers. Hideaki tomoyori - memorized value of pi to 40000 places. Sees certain words in colours even though the words shown are black and white. Heard a list of hundreds of nonsense sounds, and able to recall them. Extreme synesthesia, and used method of loci. Information is easier to remember when it is organized.
