Psychology 1000 : Human Memory.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Mediating strategies meaningfulness, frequency, formation of images, Natural language mediators stimulus equivalent, response equivalent. Measuring retention recall, recognition, re-learning (savings) Theories of forgetting = decay, interference, repression. Ways to improve retrieval over learning, organizing, chunking. The theories and processes applied: an examination of the serial position. The bulk of research on memory has employed verbal materials. They range from nonsense syllables to words to sentences to paragraphs. This range of materials allows for manipulation of the amount of meaning in a stimuli. First published study of memory in 1885. Two major types cvc & ccc. Purpose was to attempt to eliminate the effects of prior knowledge on learning of materials. Read a list of nonsense syllables to the beat of a metronome to insure each item is received the same exposure for study. On all exposures following the initial exposure he attempted to form an association between the current stimuli and next stimuli on the list.