Psychology 3138F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: George Mandler, Hermann Ebbinghaus, Clive Wearing
22 Apr 2013
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Schacter (2001) "seven sins of memory" - necessary consequences of the virtues that make our memories so rich and flexible. Evidence, such as the clive case, suggest that memory is not a single global system but, rather is much more complex. Theories are essentially like maps - they summarize knowledge is an simple and structured way. Different theories will operate at different levels of explanation and focus on different issues. Reductionism: assumes that the aim of science is to reduce each explanation to the level below. Theories: 1960s - gained popularity is an approach with its roots in herman ebbinghaus (19th century. Donald broadbent"s (1958) perception and communication and uric neisser (1967) Cognitive psychology: analogy of memory as computer - requires capacity to encode, store, and retrieve. Modal model (atkinson and shiffrin (1968): representative of many models of operation of human memory at the time, distinctions between sensory memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory, sensory memory:
