PSYC1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Hermann Ebbinghaus, Sensory Memory, Connectionism
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Without memory, we"d be little more than a rock. Memory is learning that has remained over time, information that"s stored and can be retrieved. In one experiment, people were shown 2,500 slides for 10 seconds. Later, 280 slides were repeated along with never-before-seen slides. People could pick out the seen-slides 90% of the time. Then 17 years later, shown partial images of those pictures. Those who had seen the pictures were better at recognizing the partial images than those who"d never seen them. One idea of memory is called the information processing model and takes after a computer. Encoding - how we get information into our brain. Storage - how we hold onto that information. Retrieval how we get the info back out of our brain. It has the idea that memories are made up of interconnected neural networks. The theory is that memories are made in three stages .
