PSY 433 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: The Roaches, Motor Learning

• School: University of Oregon
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 433
• Professor: Nash Unsworth

Document Summary

Forgetting functions: forgetting is ubiquitous, the process by which we lose info over time, follows a negatively accelerating function. Early views: vives and bacon influences on forgetting: destroyed/erased, smeared/broken up, escaped searching. Encoding storage retrieval: pseudo-forgetting happens before encoding (like forgetting where you put your keys, consolidation happens after encoding storage will be weak, decay happens after storage too much time between use, they weaken. A neurophysiological activity presumed to be necessary after study: needs time in the brain to solidify this memory (based on synaptic changes, disruption of the consolidation process leads to the degraded representations. Main predictions: mental inactivity is better than activity (after learning just sit there and let the memories settle new memories will confuse you, (cid:862)if (cid:373)e(cid:374)tal i(cid:374)a(cid:272)ti(cid:448)ity is (cid:272)riti(cid:272)al to (cid:272)o(cid:374)solidatio(cid:374) the(cid:374) goi(cid:374)g to sleep is the (cid:271)est optio(cid:374)(cid:863) Jenkins & dallenbach (1924): had participants sleep after you learn something (inactivity).