PSYCH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Thiamine, Eyewitness Identification, Childhood Amnesia
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Three-stage memory model: serial position effect: the ability to recall an item is influenced by the item"s position in a series, primary effect: superior recall of early items, recency effect: superior recall of recent items. Method of loci geographic locations: schemas: a cognitive structure which provides a meaningful framework for organizing. Retrieval: the process of getting information out of memory, two methods include: Recognition task v encoding specificity principle: memory is enhanced when conditions present during retrieval match those that were present during encoding. Internal cues v memory as a reconstructive process: misinformation effect, loftus et al. Hermann ebbinghaus: famous forgetting curve, savings. Decay theory: with time and disuse the long-term physical memory trace in the nervous system fades away. Interference: competition from other material: retroactive interference: new information impairs the retention of previously learned information a b a, proactive interference: material learned in the past interferes with recall of new information.
