PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Encoding Specificity Principle, Episodic Memory, Limbic System

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Dan Dolderman

Document Summary

At the beginning of a learning process, you have little or no patterns. Memory making more patterns that are associated with what you are learning. Learning combination of feature based learning and integrated learning. The model is not true but an approximation of the truth helps us organize and understand memory. A memory system that momentarily preserves extremely accurate representations of sensory information. Information that is not quickly passed to short-term memory is gone forever. Asked people what they saw when given a piece of information for a few seconds. Found that immediately after he asked people, they knew what they saw: for a brief moment, one remembers the grid but it takes too long to remember it all after a longer period of time. I(cid:272)o(cid:374)i(cid:272) (cid:373)e(cid:373)or(cid:455) (cid:449)as de(cid:373)o(cid:374)strated i(cid:374) perli(cid:374)g"s (cid:272)lassi(cid:272) e(cid:454)peri(cid:373)e(cid:374)t (cid:894)e(cid:454)posure=(cid:1005)/(cid:1006)(cid:1004) of a se(cid:272)o(cid:374)d(cid:895) a(cid:374)d lasts about 1/3 second.