PSY 252 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Elizabeth Loftus, Episodic Memory, Autobiographical Memory
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Simons & chambers: polled public vs. memory researchers on the nature of memory. Nature of memory: amnesia, greek without memory . E. p. infected by virus which damaged his hippocampus: temporal lobe; hippocampus: inability to put memories into long term, older memories already stored- undamaged. Hippocampus: memory consolidation: taking memories; permanent overtime. Long-term memory: anything stored for more than a few seconds. Capacity: not dealing with capacity limit which effects long-term memory, brain"s total capacity = quadrillion bytes range (bartol et al. 2015): not sure how much is available. Norman: organization is crucial- how to store & retrieve. Why: not all one single system, one set for facts (declarative element/ explicit, one set for procedure (non-declarative/ implicit) procedural. We forget a lot: learning & remembering takes effort & resources, older memories less useful. Inefficient & overwhelming: some things are most relevant, lots of redundant stuff, exposure of a lot of stuff. We believe we know more than we do .
