Memory:

The mental
experience.

faculty

of

Process involved in
memory:
Enconding:
association with an
existing memory.
Retrieval: return
the information.
Storage: holding
onto information.
We have 3 storage
capabilities:

retaining

and

recalling

past

STM: limited capacity.

LTM: unlimited.
Subcategories of LTM:
Declarative Memory:
memory for facts,
information about our
enviroment.
Semantic Memory:
knowledge like the
meaning of words
Episodic Memory:
events and situations.

What and Why we

remember?
There are typically
some reasons why
information
is
shorted: STM
1. Recency effect
2. Frequency effect
3. Association
4. Reconstruction
What we remember.
LTM
a) Important

Techniques used to study

memory:
Techniques used to
assess infants memory:
Deferred
imitation
technique:
an
experimenter
shows
infants
a
unique
sequence of actions .
Elicited
imitation
technique: shown that
20-month-olds can recall
the action sequences
twelve months later.
Techniques
used
to
assess older children and
adults' memory:
Paired associate learning:
Detection
paradigm:

VIDEOS
MEMORY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbWZAckCam
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FORGETTING
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5zH4N3ohR0
&list=PLb08E1Nek-5DmFI2_hGia5AFKIG5VUP3W
INTELLIGENCE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqxQmoZykhs