PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Dennis Amiss, Episodic Memory, Echoic Memory
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Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn"t. Itkeeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you! . Tested himself with nonsense syllables, and found that he forgot most of it within 20 minutes, but remembered a small part for a long time. Meaningful pieces of information tend to stick in your mind a little better. This is why you forget names of people from other cultures. The name has no significance to you yet. At the beginning of a process, you have very little patterns/context, so less meaningful. Meaning: memory perspective: figure out how to bring more patterns or make more connections to the material so you remember more. Memorizing is not the best way to learn because you have a bunch of disconnected patterns. Learning details and stocking them in without integration.