Long-term Memory

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Results • Forgetting Curves – Ebbinghaus’s (1885) nonsense syllable experiment • over the course of days, he kept on relearning lists of nonsense syllables (e.g., RUR, HAL, BEIS, etc.) • forgetting was measured as percent savings (a comparison of immediate testing versus testing after a delay) • information is rapidly forgotten at first (non-linear)
Results cont. • recall is better when context is kept the same – encoding specificity • Thomson and Tulving (1970) – word context – e.g., studied ‘ground-COLD’ » better recall with ‘ground-?’ than ‘hot-?’ • Golden and Baddeley (1975) – environmental context – words learned on land or underwater – words tested on land or underwater memory performance study on land study underwater test underwater test on land
Page 1 and 2: Memory Terminology • Types of Lon
Page 3: A Unitary Account of Memory • lev
Page 8 and 9: - encoding specificity cont. • Ma
Page 10 and 11: Results cont. • memory is worse w
Page 12 and 13: Amnesia
Page 14: • Anterograde amnesia - Inability
Page 18 and 19: • Retrograde amnesia - loss of ol
Page 20 and 21: - Autobiographical memory for ordin
Page 22 and 23: • Weaver (1993) compared intentio
Page 24 and 25: ORB and Cue Utilization • Differe
Page 26 and 27: Eyewitness Memory • memory integr
Page 28 and 29: False Memory Effect • Deese (1959
Page 30: • Hyman, Husband, and Billings (1

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