01:830:101 Midterm: Chapter 7-11

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: Mimi Phan

Document Summary

Memory is a collection of several systems that store information in different forms for differing amounts of time. Hermann ebbinghaus studied his own ability to memorize new material; involved explicit memory; forgetting curve. Cued recall: hints given; fill in the blank test. Recognition: choose correct item from a list; multiple choice questions. Savings/relearning method: compares the speed that new material is learned, to the speed of relearning old material. The time saved between the original learning and the relearning is a measure of memory. Implicit memory: information we know although we don"t experience conscious awareness of that knowledge; priming is a process that activates implicit memory. Explicit memory: information we know or know we should know. Stores: retain information in memory without using it for any specific purpose. 3 stores are sensory memory, stm, and ltm. Control processes: shift information from one memory store to another. Encoding: the process of storing information in the ltm.