PSY 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Elizabeth Loftus, Mnemonic, Aplysia

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 110
• Professor: Roderick Gillis

Document Summary

Chapter 7: memory: sensory register, short term memory, long term memory, time frames of memory. The encoding process = moving info from short to long term. The reconstructive nature of memory: engram, time frames of memory, sensory register (sperling, 1960) Eidetic imagery (photographic memory: short term memory (less than 1 minute) If you cut things into meaningful things you can remember more: long term memory, episodic memory = personally experienced events, semantic memory = facts and abstract knowledge, procedural memory = skills and habits. The encoding process + storage: shallow processing, rehearsal(maintenance rehearsal, deep processing = effortful processing, elaboration (elaborative rehearsal, organization, visual imagery, mnemonic devises (1. ) Narrative story: three theories to explain forgetting. Retroactive: decay theory = neural decay, interference theory (proactive and, motivated (active) forgetting= freudian repression, amnesia, retrograde (complete or partial, anterograde. Eric kandel s work with aplysia 1989: miscellaneous topics. Thus both learning & memory are extensions of the developmental process.