PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Hermann Ebbinghaus, Forgetting Curve, Scuba Diving
Document Summary
Explore the world of thoughts, representations and mental processes that make up cognition. Cognitive processes make humans unique sentient beings. Memory: the fundamental cognitive mechanism that allows us to store and retrieve information. Trying to understand a very abstract and complex system. Memory can act like a video camera (preserves images and audio to be played back at a later time) Memory as a filing cabinet (create memory files that are stored in an organized folder system which can be accessed to remember something) Computer metaphor of memory (specialized components responsible for handling different memories at different times) Memory is something we have to construct through a pile of basic building blocks using raw materials of perception and experience. One memory acts as a cue to trigger another memory. Early researchers influenced by behaviorists early focus of memory research concerned how cues interact with encoding and retrieval mechanisms of memory.
