PSYC 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Encoding Specificity Principle, Classical Conditioning, Echoic Memory
6 Dec 2016
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Memory: persistence of learning over time through the encoding, storage, and retrieval of information. Memory is the persistence of _______ over time. Multiple choice tests you recognize the right answer: relearning it more easily on a later attempt, assesses amount of time saved when relearning previously learned information. Ebbinghaus found that the more times he practiced a list of nonsense syllables on day 1, the less time he required to relearn it on day 2: speed of relearning is one measure of memory retention. Psychologists use memory models to think and communicate about memory: ex: library, with different sections. Information-processing models: compares human memory to computer operations, involves 3 processes: encoding, storage and retrieval, connectionism information processing model: Views memories as products of interconnected neural networks: three processing stages in the atkinson-shiffrin model: We first record to-be-remembered information as a fleeting sensory memory. From there, we process information into short-term memory, where we encode it through rehearsal.
