PSYCH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Hermann Ebbinghaus, Hawthorne Effect, Implicit Learning
27 Oct 2016
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Psych 202 - lecture 3 - learning and memory day 2 (9. 14. 16) Psych 202 section with professor green will not have an exam during finals week. The last exam will be the last day of class and is exam 4 (listed on syllabus) All of the lectures presented will have slides and a video on learn@uw. Acquisition of new knowledge, skills, or responses from experience resulting in relatively permanent change in state of the learner. Hermann ebbinghaus - one of the fathers of cognitive psychology. Created a catalog of 2300 three letter words that didn"t exist with this structure: Repeated 16 of these nonsense syllables to measure how many times it takes to relearn the list by heart. The total time hypothesis table is available on learn@uw -- illustrates how x amount of repetitions help lower the number of seconds needed to relearn and recollect the list.
