Psychology A185 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Long-Term Memory
28 Dec 2020
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Memory: process that allow us to record and later retrieve experiences and information. Encoding (automatic vs. effortful) remembering in a way that it can be. Short-term: looking up a new phone number in order to remember it if someone gives numbers or distracts you then that is gone. Lost within a few seconds or minutes. Sometimes able to retrieve however sometimes it is lost over time. The partial reinforcement schedule that is most resistant to extinction is the. The primacy effect refers to the fact that when learning a new list of words, recall is better for words. Located at the beginning of the list. Located in the middle of the list. Located at the end of the list. Mental workplace for retrieval and use of already known information. The capacity of short term memory is 7 +/-2 of information. Rehearsal eases transfer to ltm (long term memory) Chunking putting the individual in chunks rather than individual pieces.
