PSYCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Interference Theory, Explicit Memory, Limbic System
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Lecture 11 psych 100- forgetting biology & biology of memory. Inability to retrieve information, due to poor encoding, storage or retrieval. Remember info at beginning and the end if a list better than info into the middle. Spacing effect- distributed study leads to better retrieval than massed practice. Studying 1 hour each night for 5 nights is better than studying for 5 hours in one night. We cannot remember what we did not encode. Failure to connect new information with prior knowledge due to poor elaborations. Although the information is retained in the memory store it cannot be accessed. Proactive interference- information learned earlier interferes with information learned later. Retroactive interference- information learned later interferes with information learned earlier. Sleep avoids retroactive interference and leads to better recall. We filter or fill in missing pieces of information to make our recall more coherent. Incorporating misleading information into one"s memory of an event. Eyewitnesses reconstruct memories when questioned about the event.
