PSYCH 1F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Hermann Ebbinghaus, Frederic Bartlett, Nonsense Word
28 Jul 2019
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The fundamental cognitive mechanism that allows you to encode, store & retrieve information. Frederic bartlett realized that all the metaphors have something in common. Each assumes that memory can store experiences in their original, undistorted ways & that memory retrieval is as simple as accessing a previously stored item that has been kept in a specific place. Research reveals that memory is subject to interpretation & reconstruction (altered or lost) One memory acts as a cue to trigger another memory. Hermann ebbinghaus defined memory as a serial learning task. As he memorized nonsense word lists, he suggested that each word in the list served as a cue that triggered the next word that followed; each word connects to the word in front & behind it. Cognitive models describe & organize data & make specific, testable hypotheses that can be studied in controlled experiments in the lab. Basic memory tasks involve 2 phases: encoding phase.
