PSYC 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Self-Reference, Echoic Memory, Short-Term Memory
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Persistence of learning over time through the encoding, storage and retrieval of information. Retrieving information that is not currently in your conscious awareness but that was learned at an earlier time. Relearning it more easily on a later attempt. Learning something more quickly when you learn it a second or later time. When you study for a final exam or engage a language used in early childhood, you will relearn the material more easily than you did initially. Our speed at relearning also reveals memory. Assesses the amount of time saved when learning material again. We remember more than we can recall. Psychologists use memory models to think and communicate about memory. Getting information into the brain by, for example, extracting meaning. Views memories as products of interconnected neural networks. Specific memories arise from particular activation patterns within these networks.