PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Bell Labs, Sensory Memory, Elizabeth Loftus

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

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French people trying to learn spanish: retroactive interference, will say papier instead of papel , what you learned after affects what you knew before, ex. French people trying to learn spanish: will say papel instead of papier . Strategies to improve memory: mnemonics, sayings/patterns that are developed to help remember things, mnemonics will only assist in remembering lists, items not their meanings, ex. Phone numbers area code, 3 numbers, 4 numbers: chunking also allows for a smaller number of things to remember at one time. Memory without awareness: we can be influenced by a number of things outside of our awareness that affect our memory, ex. Memories can be constructed through the retelling of stories from our childhood by others: cautions, research has been able to show that some memories that children have could be constructions of things that never happened.