PSYC 302 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Episodic Memory, Forgetting Curve, Endel Tulving
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Include prior knowledge, depth of processing, forgetting and consolidation and transferability. Brains are surprisingly complex, and it is not until gained assistance of modern machines that we really began to understand them. By saying that, i mean, some ancients even believed it was for cooling the blood, others just though it was a useless organ. One process we have only just begun to understand about the brain is memory. Memory can be broken down into three processes which are encoding, storing and retrieving. As human, we do not store copies of experiences in our memory. Rather, we integrate new incoming information from the surroundings in relations to out pre-existing knowledge. In this essay, i will discuss factors of memory as well as prior knowledge, depth processing, forgetting and consolidation and transferability. Prior knowledge is the knowledge the learner already has before they meet new information.
