PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Henry Molaison, Mnemonic, Elizabeth Loftus
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Martin showers in the locker room and gets burned by the water when water is flushed and jumps out of shower. Later, he hears the flush go off again and jumps out. Belief that memory results from mental connections between ideas and concept. In order to remember something we must: encode (get information to our brain) store ( keep the info somewhere safe) retrieve ( get the info back out later) Serial position effect: from a list of words, the first few words and the last few words are more likely to be remembered. Beginning of the list has a primacy effect. There is nothing in the brain when the list starts. The end of the list has a recency effect. People think that primacy effect is long term memory. On the other hand, recency effect is short term. Function: holds information long enough to be processed for basic physical characteristics. Capacity: large- can hold many items at once.
