PSYC 3330 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Interference Theory, Asteroid Family, 2 Years On
28 Sep 2016
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No person that remembers everything but a lot of people with good memory: called hyperthymestic syndrome. The decline in memory retention as a function of time elapsed first described by. Does forgetting depend on what is learned. Newspaper study: substantial forgetting dose occur, the recall for events dropped from 60-30 in a year, forgot more when recall was tested vs recognition usually always. Foreign language forgetting levels out after about 2 years. Why is recognition better than recall: recognition tests reveal that more often resides in mem than is measured by recall. Accessibility/ availability distinction: distinction between availability and accessibility, accessibility ease with which a stored memory can be retrieved, availability binary distinction indicating whether a trace is or not stored. Forgetting may be slowed for some types of knowledge. Forgetting is not equally vulnerable to all points. Imprints take time to solidify bc it require structural changes. Until the changes occur it is called systematic consolidaton.
