PSYC 1020H Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Exceptional Memory, 18 Months, Fear Conditioning
15 Jul 2014
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Memory (what is it?: the ability to use information from past experiences. Losing memory: man trapped in the past- clyde, can"t remember anything at all, does not know age, year, month etc, can"t retain beyond 30 seconds, wife left, then came back, can"t remember any of their experiences. Learning is the process of acquiring new information, while memory refers to the persistence of learning in a state that can be revealed at a later time (squire, 1987: the capacity to retain and retrieve information and the changes in structures that account for this capacity. Can we observe a memory: not really, learning and memory are theoretical concepts. Ebbinghaus and memory: herman ebbinghaus, first scientific methods for assessing acquisition and retention of a controlled experience, aimed to study pure memory , completely new piece of information, not contaminated by prior experiences.
