PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Solomon Shereshevsky, Long-Term Memory, Psy
13 Oct 2014
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Psy 101:intro to psychology: lecture 5: the mind,memory, and its importance. Without being able to forget we would have out of date information. Reasons for forgetting- encoding, the idea that some info though we perceive through sense the info never gets encoded to long term memory, means that the info seems to be useless. Proactive- prior info we have inhibits the ability to recall new information. Retroactive- learning of new materials disrupt our ability to recall information that was previously learned. Concepts refer to mental grouping of similar person ,objects, events, places. Semantic networks- connecting informaion into certain patterns to help us remember. Priming concepts- makes thoughts easier to acsess , but usually only last for about 24 hours. Meyer and schvaneveldt- pairs of letter strings and asked to decided whether both strings formed a word. Some trials the words were related such as nurse and doctor and other trials were not related such as bread and doctor.
