PSYC 10a Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Encoding Specificity Principle, Egocentric Bias, Beta Blocker

• School: Brandeis University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 10a
• Professor: Wright Ellen

Document Summary

Replicate something you saw before by drawing it or describing it. Any act of memory requires success at three aspects: Creation of a memory trace, or the storage of knowledge. Ability to use the knowledge, or retrieval. Includes any instance of deliberate or incidental learning. Attention and engagement with to-be-remembered material is crucial; acquisition is not passive or camera-like . Raw input: translated first into a form that can be acquired by the brain. Briefly holds it before passing (some of) it along. Most people could remember ~4 or 5 from whole display. With partial-report method, could remember any row. Would be like retaining sensory memory for a much longer time. Memory store for information we"re currently thinking about, attending to, or processing actively. Some info passed to ltm; some lost. 7 pieces of information in our head, plus or minus 2 pieces. Increase amount of information through putting information together. Info you are currently thinking about / processing.