PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Eyewitness Testimony, Source Amnesia, Thalamus

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Lisa Giguere

Document Summary

Persistence of learning over time, through the storage and retrieval (functions) of info & skills (content) Recall: retrieve info previously learned and unconsciously stored. Recognition: identify which stimuli match your stored info. Relearning: measure of how much less work it takes you to learn info you studied before. Encode: info gets into brains in a way that allows it to be stored. Store: info held in a way that allows it to later be retrieved. Retrieve: reactivating & recalling info, producing it in form similar to what was encoded. Ones we aren"t fully aware of, thus don"t declare/ talk about. Brief recording of sensory info (0. 5 s) Analogous to an echo or image, all sensations we take in (3-4s) Attention> selection of info form sensory mem, sent to short-term working memory. Divide complex info into concepts, then sub concepts. Spacing effect- best use same amount of study time spread over shorter sessions. Elaboration: create links to new info & old.