PSYCH 3312 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: The Bartlett, Sharpening, Flattening
15 Feb 2018
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2 conceptions of memory processes: bottom-up vs. top-down. Ebbinghaus (bottom-up guy) focused on rote repetition. Memory trace: the record left behind in memory. S. f used top-down processes to remember 80+ terms. Prior knowledge affects how you see/remember things. Remembering as a bottom-up process: ebbinghaus"s study of rote rehearsal and. Ebbinghaus studied this and memory, and forgetting. Studied how the mind acquires new associations. Connections among ideas mirror the structure of events in the real world. Incidental encoding design: participants decide if words are unpleasant/pleasant, or if it has an e or g in it. Incidental encoding: storage is almost accidental, like when you witness a car (cid:342)reck a(cid:269)d (cid:342)ish you did(cid:269)"t re(cid:268)e(cid:268)ber the details, but you do. Orienting task: encoding operations are controlled by completing an unrelated task. Rote repetition helps ppl recognize things, not recall them. Bottom-up processing can help us encode info. Participants asked to recall words in a list, with each word occurring either 1,
