01:830:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Hermann Ebbinghaus, Free Recall, Procedural Memory

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: L.Jacobs

Document Summary

Memory is a general term for the storage, retention and recall of events, information and procedures. Memory is a process by which we store, save, and recall information. The key to using your memory is that your brain never loses anything. Once a perception or thought is placed into your memory, it stays there forever. What we call forgetting is either the inability to recall stored infom or the failure to store info. Once info is stored in memory, it is never forgotten. Hermann ebbinghaus conducted the scientific study of. Studied his own ability to memorize new material memory. We are indebted to ebbinghaus for initiating the scientific study of memory. He invented over 2300 nonsense syllables and put them into random lists nonsense syllables. Over 6 years he memorized thousands of lists of. Another feature of ebbinghaus" work is that he memorized nonsense syllables. Studies of memory show meaningful materials are easier to remember.