PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Long-Term Potentiation, Retrograde Amnesia, Implicit Memory
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George miller, 1956: the magic number 7. Noam chomsky, 1959: critique of skinner on language. Only in the late 1950"s, when a new metaphor became available(the computer) did these findings coalesce into a new worldview. The way in which we record the past(in the cns) for later use in the present. Holds information long enough to be processed for basic physical characteristics. Includes procedural memory, and behaviorist learning (classical and operant) Grouping small bits of information into larger units of information. Related items clustered together to form categories. Related categories clustered to form higher- order categories. Remember list items better if list presented in categories. Even if list terms are random, people still organize info in some logical pattern. Coordinates all activities of working memory; brings new information into working memory from sensory and long-term memory. Rehearsal not so important; its level of processing. Crucial principle: what you remember depends on what you already know.
