PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Wax Tablet, Memory Span, Hyperthymesia
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Search metaphor: talk about the mind as a place that holds things as it is real spaces that can be open or closed, and a place that you can be out of when you"re feeling strange. Memories are the things of the mind > objects to be held, they have texture, and they can be looked at. Search metaphor examples: plato and aristotle > described memory as a wax tablet. Experiences pressed into the tablet, creating shapes and patterns of writing. When we remember, our task is to search over the wax tablet and nd the correct written passage: freud > house, miller > purse, broadbent > library, more recent > computer/ tape/ video recorder. Failure of search: inability to remember something. Sometimes people remember things that never happened or don"t exist. Thus search metaphor does not always work in remembering. Past can never reoccur in exactly the same way thus simply replaying memory is not necessarily useful.
