PSYC 3330 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Working Memory, Iconic Memory, Sensory Memory
22 Mar 2016
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An extremely talented musician, sufered a brain infecion (herpes simplex virus) Became densely amnesic, unable to store informaion for periods longer than second. Always thinks he is just recovering from consciousness. Knows who he is and can talk broadly about his early life. Because parts of clive"s memory was impaired but some parts remained indicates that memory is not a single simple system. Diferent theories will operate at diferent levels that will focus on diferent issues. Reducionism: this assumes that the aim of science is to reduce each explanaion to the level below. Social psychology -> cogniive psychology -> physiologically -> biochemically -> physics. Psychophysics: an atempt to systemaically map the relaionship between physical simuli (ex. brightness, loudness) onto their perceived magnitude (psychological experience, ebbinghaus. Was the irst to demonstrate that it was possible to study memory experimentally. Ploted systemaic relaionships between condiions of learning and amount learned. Establish basic principles of learning and the classic forgeing curve.
