PSYC 101 1st Edition Lecture 10 Outline of Last Lecture - Observational Learning Outline of Current Lecture - Memory Current Lecture- Continuation of Memory MemoryRetrieval - Getting information out of memory Recall - Bringing previously learned information into conscious awareness Recognition - Identifying information that has already been presented Context Effects - Ability recall is improved when in the same context as the initial experience State Dependent Memory - Recall is improved when encoding and retrieval of memory happen in the same emotional or biological state Forgetting - Encoding failure o Information is never encoded into long term memory - Storage decay o Memories decay gradually if not used - Retrieval failure These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.Motivated Forgetting - Repression - Freudian defense mechanism that banishes an anxiety producing memory from consciousness - Preserves self-concept- Memory may be used for therapy - Researchers think that repression rarely occurs Misinformation Effect- Incorporating misleading information into the memory of an event - Elizabeth Loftus - interviewer that tests people’s memory - In her experiment the independent variable was the verb and dependent variable was the estimate speedFalse Memory - Memories that can be planted - Imagining non-existent events - Imagination inflation - imagining something that seems really vivid Eyewitness Identification - Is known to be unreliable, but can also be helpful How to improve memory?- Activate retrieval cues - Use distributed space practice - Minimize interference - Make the material
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