PS102 Lecture Notes - Anterograde Amnesia, James Mcgaugh, Procedural Memory
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Chapter 7 psychology textbook summary: encoding involves forming a memory code. Encoding: getting information into memory: next in line effect forgetting peoples names, because you are too caught up in rehearsing what you are going to say. Visual imagery: elaboration is linking a stimulus to other information at the time of encoding, for example, you read that phobias are often caused by classical conditioning and you apply this idea to your own fears of spiders. In doing so you engage in elaboration: often consists of thinking of example that illustrate an idea. Experiment: george sperling; his subjects saw three rows of letters flashed on a screen for 1/20 of a second. A tone following the exposure signalled which row of letters the subject should report to experimenter. Subjects were fairly accurate when the signal occurred however they"re accuracy steadily declined as the delay of the tone increased to 1 second.
