PY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Short-Term Memory, Change Blindness, Mnemonic
28 Sep 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
The nervous system"s capacity to acquire and retain usable skills and knowledge. Consolidation: a process by which immediate memories become lasting/ long term/ memories. Sleep has an important role in the consolidation of memories. Hippocampus: spatial memory: taxi drivers have larger hippocampus because they have a lot of spatial navigation. In 1953, doctors took a racial surgical approach to quiet the seizures of h. m. The surgery cause h. m to lose the ability to remember things over long periods of time. Brain injury may cause you to forget things, Relatively permanent, limitless store: nursey rhymes, spelling, yesterday"s lunch. Primary vs. regency effect: trying to remember lists or numbers, people tend to remember the beginning or the end but not the middle. People will not remember as much of what you said in the middle of the speech. Elaboration, helps remembering things because you have formed different connections: richer memory, maintenance rehearsal, elaborative rehearsal.
