Memory and Language- Lecture 1

Question 1

What is memory?

Answer 1

involves recollection, creation, storing, retention, reconstruction

Question 2

what is remembering?

Answer 2

retrieval of memories into conscious awareness

Question 3

Genes for memory

Answer 3

set the general boundaries of one`s intellectual, perceptual. and emotional capabilities

Question 4

memory and experiences

Answer 4

predisposition without training/learning ex. programmed to babble, but we learn to speak a language

Question 5

first experiment on memory

Answer 5

preformed by hermann ebbinghaus in 1885/1913
taught himself nonsense syllables, measured how many times for relearning
forgetting curve was logarithmic with a dramatic forgetting after initial learning