Class Notes 7-1-10

Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology

    Nonsense memorization basically helps prevent chunking
   
   
    Chapter 7 table with time and forgetting
        The curve is drastic at first then if tapers off
   
    As it relates to bloom - things can be remembered without understanding
   
    It makes the assumption probable that with any considerable number of repetitions a suitable
    distribution of them over a space of time is decidedly more advantageous than the massing of them at a single
    time.
       
        If you space out the learning then you will be
       
       
Miller (1956) The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on our Capacity for Processing Information

    Variance is how well they come together
    Convergence is where they come together
   
    Channel Capacity - greatest amount of information that can be processed
   
    Bit - The amount of information needed to discriminate between two alternatives / stimuli
   
        Bits to information is 2 to the _ power; that power is the bit number
       
    Subitizing - what you know for certain
   
    Estimation - after you run out of bin space
   

Anderson & Schooler (1991). Reflections of the Environment in Memory

    Claims -
        - Human memory reflects the environment
        - Retention and practice are power laws
       
    Environment
        Headlines for a hundred days
            Chances that it will appear in the headline on the 101 day
           
            Frequency - Recurrence
       
        Utterances from a parent to child
       
        Email
       

    Principles of tagging
       
        Frequency
       
        Recentness
       
        Both of the above combined give us the Pattern of prior exposure
   
   
   
    Remembering and forgetting
    
    You only want to study it as much as you need to - the goal is to optimize the scheduling
   
        Every time we practice we increase the frequency as well as the recentness    
   
    Automonatisity  - being able to do something without even thinking about it
   
    Radical Constructivist - would argue that there is no common ground because everyone pecives the environment different
   
        JOKE - What's the difference between behavioral psychologist and magicians - magicians pull rabbits out of a hat and psychologist pull habits out of rats
   
    Teach and practice
   
    The further up blooms you go the more the learner and their experiences become a part of the equation
      
    10 rehearsal periods over the period of 30 days - make a guess of a pattern of exposure that would make the best set of memory and learning