PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Frederic Bartlett, Eidetic Memory, Cognitive Model
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Cognitive psychologists explore the world of thoughts, representations and mental process that make humans unique beings. Case study: amanda (a) and jen (a+) compare scores on bio course. Amanda studies psychology and wants to apply her understanding of memory to improve her study plan. Frederic bartlett realized that all of these metaphors have something in common, while each does provide a useful way of thinking about memory in some regard, in another important way, they are misleading. Each assumes that memory can store experiences in their original, undistorted form and that memory retrieval is as simple as accessing a previously stored item that has been kept in a specific place. Research has shown that memory is subject to interpretation and reconstruction. One memory can act as a cue to trigger another memory, much like the cue- response mechanism studied by behaviorists.
