PSY1022 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Episodic Memory, Strum, George Sperling
15 Aug 2018
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Identify methods for connecting new info to existing knowledge (memories) Identify the role that schemas play in the storage of memories remembering. Chapter reading: a. j. has astounding memory - remembers everything she has ever experienced - researchers gave her a date like 17/03/1989- she can recall with uncanny accuracy what she was doing on that day. They told them to count backwards 3 seconds - found that after 10-15 seconds, most participants did no better than chance = duration of short term memory is quite brief (no longer than. What we retrieve from our memory often does not match what we put into it because our memories are reconstructive, often transforming our recollections to fit our beliefs and expectations. Many types of forgetting result from failures of retrieval = our memories are still present but we can"t access them. Retrieval cues = hints that make it easier for us to recall info.
