PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Processing Fluency, Hermann Ebbinghaus, Video Camera
3 Feb 2014
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Types of questions: questions about memory acquisition, questions about memory storage, questions about memory retrieval. The importance of cues: one memory acts as a cue to another memory. Recall & recognition: people who are instructed to memorize the list will do better than those who are distracted. Hermann ebbinghaus: over time, more and more words will be forgotten. Forgetting curve , which describes this increasing rate of memory failure over time. George miller: remembering 7 number +-2 is the average number of numbers our short term memory can hold. Chunking: words and numbers can be chunked together into familiar bits to increase short term memory storage. Primacy: primacy effect: memory for items earlier in list are remembered more easily, items at the beginning of the list will be the first to enter short-term memory and thus have the most opportunity to be rehearsed.
