PSY 255 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Episodic Memory, Dream Interpretation, Paleontology
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September 6th: cognitive psychology: memory: remembering vs forgetting. A learning tool: organization: organizing information into categories, or into stories to remember better, time dependency: with time memory decays, fades. Basi(cid:272) pri(cid:374)(cid:272)iples (cid:272)o(cid:374)ti(cid:374)ued : cue dependency: building cues for learning and memory retrieval. Remembering one thing associated with the information that needs remembering. 2: encoding specificity: processing and memory intake. When the memory is created is effected by cues: environment, visual cues, sense cues, audio cues. Environment has proven to have a huge effect in memory encoding, storing and retrieval: t. a. p- transfer appropriate process: a match in cognitive operations between the way you are learning and the way you are tested. The amount of processing involved effects how much of the information sticks: schematic processing: knowledge that fits into our schemas is held better and retrieved better. Also, things that violate our schemas has a high retention rate in our memory. (vaughnstoff* effect)
