PSY 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Echoic Memory, Long-Term Memory, Iconic Memory
29 Oct 2020
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Ebbinghaus the first scientific investigation of learning and memory. Interested in how we form new memories. Drastic initial forgetfulness, then it levels off. Nonsense syllables: these unlike words would have no meaning to the subjects at the beginning of experiment. Give himself a list of nonsense syllables and studied them until he learned them. The more time he spent studying the more he remembered. He manipulated the time interval between study and test times. Occurs very rapid at first then he remembered. Memory operates much like a computer to encode, save, and retrieve information. Sensory memory first information from the environment enters sensory memory. A lot that enters, we are never consciously aware of. Short term memory fades really quickly, through encoding this can be sent to long term memory. Long term memory everything we know, all of our enduring memories. Very brief, holds on to everything that hits your senses.
