PSYC 2650 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Overlearning, Space Shuttle Challenger, 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2650
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

Semantic memory doesn"t have contextual (time and place) labels on them. Memory for all the facts you have. Access to meanings of words, and anything else that has any meaning to you. Before ebbinghaus: start with formed ideas and look backwards to find source. Ebbinghaus: studied how memory developed, able to bring many variables under scientific control, try to give people a new piece of info and you can control the circumstances of what that info is for. To-be-remembered stimuli items people were supposed to remember: no prior experience with e. g. Who"s the president of slovenia: meaningless no semantic associations, makes no sense, nonsense syllables c-v-c = consonant vowel consonant. Independent variables: retention interval time between when you remember something and when you need to use it. Want it to be fresh in mind but not crammed. The longer the retention interval, the less you"re going to remember it: list length e. g.