PSYC 3330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Interference Theory, Pseudoword, Rote Learning
22 Mar 2016
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Allows access to speciic events at a paricular ime point. Forward: to anicipate future events: semanic knowledge. Long delay: same info had been integrated into semanic memory. Disinguishing individual episodes requires: a system that can catalog unique events, mechanisms for. Ebbinghaus: controlled lab experiments, stripped materials of pre-exising meaning, to narrow a focus. Ignored how memory works in the real world. Paricipants strive to ind meaning in simuli: assumed schemas: Schemas inluenced by social and cultural factors: war of the ghosts. Paricipants given 328 word folk tale to read twice then reproduce 15 min later, hours later, and months later. What was recalled shaped by need to form a coherent understandable story in the context of their own cultural knowledge (schemata concepts) Memory is an acive process of construcion: methodology. Systemaic recall errors and distorions caused by schemas intruding on reality: tests of bartlet"s theory. Schemaic info more durable than rote recall: schema-driven errors more likely at longer retenion intervals.
