PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes -Sigmund Freud, Active Desktop, Recovered-Memory Therapy

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

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Module 23: studying & building memories. He randomly selected a sample of syllables, practiced them and tested himself. A day after learning a list, ebbinghaus could recall few of the syllables. Can hold a huge amount of information but that information stays alive for a brief period of time. Can hold information for a longer time compared to sensory memory, it can. Has a limited capacity and can hold 7 2 pieces of information hold information for about 15- 20 seconds. A meaningful unit of information: dual- track memory: effortful versus automatic processing, our mind operates on two tracks: Automatic processing: unconscious encoding of incidental information, such as space, time and frequency, and of well- learned information such as word meanings. Rather we spilt information into different components for separate and simultaneous processing. Effortlessly keep track of how many times things happen. This tone directed participants to report only the letters of the top, middle or bottom row, respectively.