PSYC 110 Lecture 8: Psychology Chapter 7 memory
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Something that is false but we believe strongly in it. *** memory is reconstructive by using info and cues around us*** Allows us time to process and fill in the blanks. We are attending to memory, actively processing. Memories can be lost through decay or interference. Magic number is 7 plus or minus 2. You can expand the span of short term memory through chunking or rehearsal. Priming (easier after we"ve encountered it before) Tendency to remember thing better at the beginning (p) or end of a list. Attention is important for encoding ( using mnemonics) Schemas can cause oversimplification and explain memory illusions. Quicker to learn something the second time. We remember better in the place where we learned it. Learned memory isn"t stored in one specific place. Implicit and explicit memories stored in different areas. Memories are easily implanted if it happened long time ago and is plausible.
