PSYC 3330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Rote Learning, Episodic Memory, Free Recall
17 Apr 2016
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Episodic memories gives us access to specific events at a particular point in time (tulving) Backwards: allows us to relive earlier memories; forwards: uses memories to anticipate future events (forward capacity gives adaptive advantage to prepare ourselves for threats. Semantic memory is generalized knowledge that occurs through the consolidation (rumination) of numerous episodes that will contribute to this knowledge. Em is like a mental filing system that allows for us to catalog unique events and distinguish btw them. Although there is a limit on details you can remember, there is no limit for events. Ebbinghaus studied memory in controlled lab experiments by stripping materials of pre-existing meaning (nonsensical words); good under lab conditions, but does not reflect real world. Bartlett illustrated that memory is about meaning, that participants strove to find meaning in stimuli (used complex materials drawings/folk tales, schemas)
