PSYC 3030 : Psychology 3030 Test 2
Document Summary
Holding onto information for some period of time: retrieval. Getting information that is in storage into a form that can be used. The ebbinghaus forgetting curve: the longer he waited to test himself his memory dropped, we can learn information, but a large portion seems to disappear. More on forgetting curves: unable to connect words because they didn"t relate, he got the shape of the curve right, but he underestimated memory (got the degree wrong, memory declines then it levels off. Varieties of memory: ebbinghaus showed that we can study memory with laboratory tests, with this approach we have discovered that memory is composed of various subsystems. Simple theory of the serial position curve: 1. Each word passes from sm to stm: stm has limited capacity, so , 2. Rehearsal transfers information from stm to ltm: 3. First few words make it into ltm: 4. Last few words still in stm at recall.
