PSYC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Frontal Lobe, Amygdala, Anterograde Amnesia
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Ebbinghaus (1885: used introspection to study forgetting in himself. Memorized a list of 12-16 consonant-vowel-consonant nonsense syllables (i. e. miw) until recalled amount of time (20 min - 31 days) Recorded # of trials required to memorize the list again after waiting a variable. Most forgetting occurred in the first 20 min, but very little forgetting between 20 min and 31 days: the curve of forgetting o, the spacing effect o, ribot"s law of regression (1882) Studied cases of amnesia associated with brain damage. In most cases, memory acquired remotely before the injury was preserved compared to that acquired recently remembered and the injury. Loss of memory is inversely related to the time elapsed between the event to be. Memories need a certain amount of time to be organized and fixed. Holds sensory information long enough for us to attend to it. No one reported all letters and reported letters varied.
