PSY 2601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Retrospective Memory, Prospective Memory, Psy
19 Oct 2015
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Lecture 15: memory strategies: retrospective vs prospective memory, retrospective memory: remembering information you acquired in the past. Focus is on information and ideas: prospective memory: remembering things that you need to in the future. Largely action-based: prospective memory is partially dependent on retrospective memory. Then actually do it: prospective memory lapses are very common, lapse of prospective memory amounts to absentmindedness. Most likely to occur in highly rehearsed (automatic) or familiar situations: best advice for avoiding: leave reminders (external memory aid) Strategies: memory strategies: practice, ebbinghaus (1895) taught himself lists of 16 nonsense syllables (e. g. , juk, vib, This is called savings. : memory straregies: spacing, in textbook: distributed practice effect, spacing: learning is better when learning episodes are distributed over time rather than massed, example: bahrick & phelps (1987) Students are taught spanish vocabulary as spanish-english word pairs. The total amount of study time was constant, but study episodes were separated by 0, 1, or 30 days.
