Memory

Memories can be clouded by similar information

Stages of Memory

Remembering

Word series to remember:

List 1: read, pages, letters, school, study, reading, stories, sheets, cover, pen, pencil, magazine, paper, words

Schema: The mental representations that we form when organizing info into knowledge

Draw the image you saw earlier from the words you remember.

End

Long Term Memory

Sensory Memory

Putting gathered information into retrievable units

*we keep the information that had the most meaning to us

The immediate, initial recording of information from the sense

-creates a 'memory trace' that could be put into short term memory, or not

Short Term Memory

Paying attention to a sensation and holding it for a limited period of time

-Primacy-- you remember the first part you heard

-Recency--remembering the last piece of information

Now, write down the words you remember in List 1 that are in list 2:

List 2: house, pencil, apple, shoe, book, flag, rock, train, ocean, hill, music, water, glass, school

Recognition-identifying objects previously encountered

Recall-bringing back to the mind

Relearning-remembering something faster than learning it the first time

Remember these words:

cat

apple

ball

tree

square

head

house

door

box

car

king

hammer

milk

fish

book

tape

arrow

flower

key

shoe

Interference--new information from short term memory push out other short term memory

Chunking--grouping information to make it easier to remember "Other flowers sent"

-That's why phone numbers are in groups of 3, 0s and repeating digits are preferred, or make a word from a phone number

Remember these 15 words:

Nine Swap Cell Ring Lust

Plugs Lamp Apple Table Sway

Army Bank Fire Hold Worm

Write your cell phone or home number down, try and make a word/phrase to make it easier to memorize

Word series to remember:

List 1: sheets, pillow, mattress, blanket, comfortable, room, dream, lay, chair, rest, tired, night, dark, time

Now, write down the words you remember in List 1 that are in list 2:

List 2: door, tree, eye, song, pillow, juice, orange, radio, rain, car, sleep, cat, dream, eat

Extensions

Bugs Bunny Effect:

Retrieval

Storage

Retaining/keeping information

Maintenance rehearsal--repeating over and over

Elaborative Rehearsal--Relating new information to stuff you already know

Organizational systems--your mind stores info into groups

Fillings Errors--Sometimes memory is placed in wrong spot, think of losing papers, keys

Retrieval-- locating stored information

Context-dependent-- Memories that come back at a specific place

State dependent-- memories returning due to returning to mood

Tip of the Tongue-- 'feeling of knowing'

what was the boys shirt?

Encoding

on his green shirt was a yellow question mark, but instead of a dot, it had a red arrow pointing up

Translation from info that can be stored

Codes:

Visual--trying to put info into a mental picture

Acoustic-- recording info as sounds

Semantic-- make meaning out of information to help store it--mnemonic devices

Remember this string: OTTFFSSENT

Types of Memory

Episodic-- remembering specific events in your life; first kiss, wedding day, traumatic events, Star Wars movie in theaters

Semantic-- general knowledge, facts; Mr. J is ugly..., George Washington was first POTUS

Implicit--remembering things by conditioning, processes, etc

Memory

process by which we collect prior experiences, info, and skill from the past