PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Hermann Ebbinghaus, Retina

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

Document Summary

Cramming works short-term, but long-term recall/recognition is weak and craming an give interference to earlier learning. During waking hours, we see a different image about 4 times/second. Each image fires about 1 million neurons in the retina alone. Memory is a process, not a storage device. That we go through to create memories to were we can store them. Sensory memory: sensory input from the environment is recorded as fleeting. Long-term memory: information is encoded into memory for late retrieval. Where did the encoding of the penny design fail to take place. Automatic processing: is the unconscious encoding of information about space, time, frequency, and well-learned information. He would study them in the morning and see how many he would remember by the end of the night. We retain more when our learning involves more time and more repetition o. This result applies to learning completely novel and meaningless information like nonsense syllabus.