PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Frosted Flakes, Police Lineup, Episodic Memory

• School: University of Kentucky
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 100
• Professor: Andrea Friedrich

Document Summary

02/27/19: long-term memory, permanent and limitless reservoir of information. We are constantly developing the information and making connections, so it"s a working memory not just a memory to get it to long-term memory: associated new and old information and solves problems. If you"re watching tv while you"re studying, you"re more likely to forget the information. Storage decay: fading of the physical memory trace: the decay theory of forgetting states that if we keep things in long-term memory without using it, it begins to decay. This is a storage issue: retrieval failure: difficulty in retrieving information that was previously issue. stored, when you encounter someone in the street that obviously knows, your long-term memory is like a garage. Sometimes, there is too much other stuff in the you, but you can"t remember how you know them, this is a retrieval garage that you can"t even park your car in there.