PSY 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Hindsight Bias, 6 Years, Dada
10 Mar 2017
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Maintenance: keeping information in the short term memory by rote repetition (ex: telephone number) Elaborative: required for more permanent storage; relating new information to what you already know (ex: fiero) Chunking - process of organizing input based on information already in long term memory. Method of loci: pairing information with locations in the environment. Provides organizational structure for learning information - helps encoding. Ensures a durable record of information in memory - helps storage. Basically supports all three of the memory processes. Decay theory: memories decay over time if they are not used. Tip-of-the-tongue effect - just because you cannot access it does not mean it is not there. Interference theory: other information gets in the way. Proactive - material learned prior to what is being retrieved interferes (so you learned how to play tennis first, then you learn how to play racquetball -- you"re holding the racquetball racket like a tennis racket)
