lecture 2 Flashcards
mature et al
compared 10 memory champions with 10 normal controls
possible conclusions of matures research
brains of mental athletes appear anatomically indistinguishable
athletes rely more heavily on regions involved in spatial memory - right hippocampus
mental imagery
experiences we describe in terms of looking at a mental picture
mneumonist
person with exceptional memory
mnemonic
device for improving memory
case study
S- remarkable imagery
but poor memory for faces and disorganisation
mnemonics rely on
associations between easy to remember constructs
encoding a list
mental follow the seance and put an object relating to an item in each place
retrieving. list
mentally repeat th sequence of paces nd see what is in each place
remembering pairs of words
retrieval of one word by another is improved by forming a mental image
wollen andweber
interactions are more effective - chunking
Atkinson and riagh
keyword method to learn foreign vocab
eg form an image association with keyword with English word
abstract word’s are
harder to recall compared with concrete words - harder to visualise
dual coding theory
2 independent codes- visual -imaery and verbal
single storage medium
one one storage medium - what is stored is neither an image nor a verbal code but instead is abstract
info is stored as logical propositions
