PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Episodic Memory, Implicit Memory, Fergus I. M. Craik
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Memory: the nervous system"s capacity to acquire and retain usable skills and knowledge, allowing organisms to benefit from experience: our memories are often incomplete, biased and distorted, we tend to remember personally relevant information. 3 rows of letters flash for 1/20 remember top row, med pitch= middle row, etc. ), tones displayed at different time intervals after disappearances of letters: greater the delay between disappearance of letters and tone th of a second, 3 different pitches (high pitch= Memory rehearsing info that you already know pretty well: duration & capacity, serial position effect: material studied in multiple sessions over time, overlearning, distributed practice, only info that is adaptive to our enviro transferred to ltm. * wm & ltm can be dissociated form each other, but generally highly interdependent: biological. Ltm p articipants asked to remember long lists of words- better: memory is not just one entity but rather a process that involves several interacting.
