Memory Flashcards
1
Q
What is memory according to Blakemore (1988)?
A
Learning is the acquisition of knowledge and memory is the storage of an internal representation of that knowledge.
2
Q
What is memory (not Blakemore)?
A
The ability to retain information after the original stimulus is no longer present and demonstrate retention through behaviour.
3
Q
Margret and Lloyd Peterson 1959
A
The trigram study involved 24 undergraduate student who were given a meaningless 3 syllable trigram like YCG and asked to remember it. Then asked to count backward from it till told to stop
