PSYC 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Encoding Specificity Principle, Retrograde Amnesia, Forgetting Curve
6 Nov 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Now, you can"t remember what your old phone number was. New information reduces the ability to remember old information. But you keep forgetting it- you keep recalling your old phone number. Old information reduces the ability to remember new information. With two memories of equal strength, the younger (recent) memory will decay faster than the older memory (remote) Older (remote) memories are less likely to be lost as a result of brain damage than newer (recent) memories. How we learn and are cued to remember consolidate. Strategies to provide meaning or organization to to- be-remembered information. Associate pieces of information with a visual image of a location. Tested after 20 minutes; 24 hours and 4 months. Analyzed change in remembering (number of words recalled) before and after training. 24 hours - 20 minutes - 4 months. When prior exposure to something facilitates information processing. Participants are likely to use studied words without awareness.
