PSYC 2060U Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Sensory Memory, Forgetting Curve, Roygbiv
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Learning more about how memory works, and why, and how memory fails to work, can help you improve your own memory: assists with your studying, assists with day-to-day life, assists with future career plans. Memory is any indication that learning has persisted over time: it is our ability to store and retrieve information. Evidence that learning persists: recall, recognition, and relearning. If memory was non-existent: everyone would be a stranger to you, every language foreign, every task new, you yourself would be a stranger to you. Just because information makes it into memory does not mean it is retrieved in its exact form: there are biases in encoding, there are biases in retrieval. We may think that we know exactly what our biology smelled like or how awesome a movie was that we saw as a child, but if you go back to that lab or movie, you may be surprised. Memory is a reconstruction, not a replication of reality.
