PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Combination Bus, Mnemonic, Suggestibility
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Memory ii: ebbinghaus found that his recall of words from his memorized word lists was greatest immediately after leaning the list but rapidly decreased with the first hour. Episodic memory: events experienced by a person. Semantic memory: facts, general knowledge: declarative memory (explicit, procedural memory (implicit, long term memory, explicit memory known as declarative or conscious memory, properties, two subtypes of explicit memory. Can use to directly respond to a question. Episodic: memory in which we store memories of personal experiences that are tied to particular times and places. Examples include: ability to drive a car and play the guitar: focusing on meaning of information to encode it into ltm. Do(cid:374)"t si(cid:373)pl(cid:455) repeat items over and over. In this study, scuba divers listened to a list of words either while they were on land or while they were underwater. They were later asked to recall as many words as possible. Results indicate that contextual consistency results in better performance.
