PSYC 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Donald O. Hebb, Autobiographical Memory, Asymptote
30 Apr 2016
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Hermann ebbinghaus first to study memory empirically: uber das gedachtnis (1885) used technique of learning, allowing time to forget, then relearning advantage of relearning over original learning = savings. Rehearsal: a set of techniques/strategies for encoding information into long term memory discriminate two kinds of rehearsal: Maintenance: keeps information alive in wm; rote recycling. Elaboration: promotes information to ltm; think about and connect. Canada"s best known psychologist interested in all aspects of learning. Rundus (1971) tape record overt (aloud) rehearsals, so they are no longer covert count number of rehearsals for each word and position number of rehearsal correlated with recall accuracy in primacy and asymptote, but not in recency. Bob lockhart proposed a processing framework for memory highly influential view of levels of processing . Essence of levels emphasis on processes, not stores memory is an outgrowth of perception shallow ( perceptual") vs deep ( meaningful") processing.
