PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hermann Ebbinghaus, Echoic Memory, Iconic Memory
5 Mar 2017
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Memory: persistence of learning over tie through the storage and retrieval of information. Assumes the processing of information for memory storage is similar to the way a computer processes memory. Automatic: things that we code without making an effort. Knowledge of event frequency, time and location. Effortful: effort to encode and remember information and required. Meaning try to relate them to one another or come up with an example. Mental pictures that you can imagine in your head. Chunking: organizing items into familiar, manageable units. Spacing effects: tendency for distributed study or practice to yield better long-term retention than is achieved through massed study or practice. The amount of remembered depends on the time spent learning. Overlearning can never study something too much: we do forget information overtime, storage. Stage model - atkinson and shiffrin (1968) The human memory system is composed of 3 stages or 3 types of memory system which information must pass: 1.
