PSY 1101 Lecture 8: PSY1101 March 8 Lecture

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Mark Dallas

Document Summary

Practices to improve memory: distributed/spaced practice (cramming is short-term and can cause interference), give meaning (i. e. imagery, acronym), active retrieval cues (recall where you saw the info), mnemonic devices (grouping, chunking, hierarchies), minimize interference, sleep, test self. We are constantly sensing information (1 million neurons per image in retina, 4 images per second) -- this is too much to remember! We remember very little, most gets discarded (not stored!) Memory = learning that persists over time (through storage and retrieval) -- a process (not a storage device!) Memory is not equivalent to technology of physical recording methods. We make up our memories, memory is a construct. Filesystems in memory (i. e. which neighbor lives in which apartment) Encoding (info to memory) > storage > retrieval. I. e. we never encoded the information of which side the human on a coin is facing.