PSYC 3030 Chapter : Psych Section 2
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He could estimate pure memory: ebbinghaus forgetting curve: remembered them well for a short period of time (2 days) then a sharp downward curve followed. He was right about the curve, but his was more extreme than what is known today. More time to rehearse and send to ltm. Beginning information in the 2-second presentation: if you add a distractor like making them do math after. Beginning information but less end information watching the items, they remember the same amount of: dewey rundus (1971, squire (1979) described na, who had a puncture from fencing. Na could: protocol analysis during learning, ps were recorded while they memorized words, milner reported the case of hm, who had surgery to relieve his epilepsy. He lost all ability to transfer info from stm to. He could not recognize new people, even if he saw them every day. When he aged, after about 40 years, he could not recognize himself.
