PSYC 3330 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Long-Term Memory, Episodic Memory, The Bartlett
31 Mar 2016
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Tulving: mental time travel allowing us to travel back and relive earlier episodes and use this to travel forward and anticipate future events. Crucial feature is the capacity to remember specific events. Such events may then accumulate and consolidate to form the basis of semantic memory our knowledge of the world. Impaired memory in amnesic patients is generally associated with impaired knowledge acquisition, the capacity to continue to develop knowledge of the world, rather than capacity to retrieve existing knowledge. 2 different traditions of the psychology of memory: 1st is ebbinghaus study is made possible by focusing on clearly specified experiments with tightly constrained goals. Attempts to tackle the study of memory in all its complexity, accepting that our capacity to control any single study will inevitably be limited, but trusting in the belief that multiple studies will allow clear conclusions to be drawn.
