Psychology 1000 Study Guide - University Of Western Ontario, Decay Theory, Pseudoword

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr T Biggs

Document Summary

Mediating strategies meaningfulness, frequency, formation of images, schema, pronouncibility, rhyming etc. Natural language mediators stimulus equivalent, response equivalent. Measuring retention recall, recognition, relearning (savings) Theories of forgetting decay, interference, repression. Ways to improve retrieval over learning, organization, chunking. The theories and processes applies: an examination of the serial position curve. 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 received the same exposure for study. On all exposures following the initial exposure he attempted to form an association between the current stimuli and the next stimuli on the list.