PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ray Jessel, Long-Term Memory, Interference Theory
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Song short term memory blues by ray jessel. Dude is forgetting some of the lyrics as he sings! Memory and information processing: the study of memory goes back earlier than what we talk about today. Has been studied since the beginning of psych: fundamental lesson our thinking is not just effortful memory, it is governed by rules and unconscious thought processes, stages of memory. Short term memory (memory for things that is relatively small and short) Long-term memory (you have to encode the short term memory futher: bell labs (phone company) tested how many numbers a person could remember, and that was 7. This is related to short term memory, because it is very difficult to remember a random assortment of numbers: short term memory normally holds 7 numbers (+/- 2) To cheat this, you can make it groups of numbers: damage to the hippocampus.
