PSYC 248 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Reading Education In The United States, Explicit Memory, Clive Wearing
24 Aug 2016
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Forgetting often works in our favor, even though its counterintuitive: we don"t want to hold on to all memory (embarrassing stuff, forgetting things that are wrong/not important. Clive wearing had a destroyed hippocampus, lost all this memories: can only keep 30 seconds on memory/experience at one type, there isn"t just one type of memory. Rajan mahadevan hold record for memorizing 31,811 digits of pi: subject for expert memory. Size of words shown (rhodes & castel) has no effect on how well you will memorize those words. Strategies for improving memory: mnemonics: specific techniques t help encode, store, and retrieve items that may be difficult to remember. Find familiar word (keyword) that sounds like beurre. Form image linking keyword to the meaning of the foreign word. Imagine something really strange to connect all of the things you need to remember. Create mental image of items you want to remember interactive with specific landmarks along your route (provides organizational structure)
