PSY 2012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Heritability, Decision-Making, Base Rate
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Encoding failure : information did not enter long term memory (lmt) Most people cannot definitively answer which was he faces on the penny. This is because we don"t really focus on what the penny looks like. Retrieval failure : lack of adequate encoding and retrieval cues. If something ends up paired with the wrong schema, then it would be a result of retrieval failure, because you can"t properly identify it. You call your new girlfriend by your old girlfriends name. Interference is affecting something you learned in the past. You try to say something in spanish, but you accidentally say it in. You don"t remember the accident, and things after. Even after the accident and as you are recovering, the accident. You don"t remember the accident, and a few things before that accident. All depend on elaborative (note rote) rehearsal. Relating material to something that you relate to. 12 months, 365 days in a year.
