PSYCH 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Hermann Ebbinghaus, Solomon Shereshevsky, Flashbulb Memory
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Memory part ii: bahrick"s research on very long term memory, permastore- subjects remembered high school spanish or the names and faces of their high school classmates even 30 or 50 years later. Learn words underwater while scuba diving or while on surface. Theories about forgetting: decay theory, memory is weakened with disuse, simply passage of time. Interference theory: proactive: old memories interfere with recall of new info, you get a new bank account and want to use the atm but your old. Explicit: conscious recollection, declarative knowledge, recall, recognition. Ex: skills: priming, di erences between implicit and explicit have been demonstrated by studying patients with amnesia. Inability to learn new explicit info after trauma: retrograde amnesia. Bind together activity in di erent parts of the cortex: once memories are consolidated, don"t need the hippocampus to retrieve them, mirror reading study, participants, methods, results.
