PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Anterograde Amnesia, Forgetting Curve, Flashbulb Memory

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jill L Atkinson

Document Summary

Psyc 100 week 11: method of loci: method of memory enhancement that uses visual information to organize and recall info. Construction: (creation of a new story from an original story) Elaboration: the degree to which info is specified, described, and or related to other info in memory. Visual short-term memory: memory of visual info obtained from nonverbal (info communicated without words and that cannot easily be put into words) sources: short-term memory and working memory: Short-term storage: holds info long enough to accomplish the intended purpose for the info. Long-term storage: storage of info on a permanent. Working memory: memory of new info and info retrieved from long-term memory. Maintenance rehearsal: rote repetition of info, repeating a given item over and over again. Phonological short-term memory: short-term memory for verbal info. Span: the longest string of info that a person can immediately recall: serial position curve: plots memorability as a function of position in the list.