Psychology 255: Human Memory(A+ Guaranteed Answers)
What did Plate believe about memory? correct answers Memory is soft and erodes with time
(wax tablet metaphor)
Aristotle? correct answers Focused more on the physiological location of memory, "learned by
the heart"
Aristotle's grandson, Erasistratus? correct answers Focused more on the nervous system
He was an Empiricist: laws of association (association of ideas), Connectionism: units of
memory = units of nervous system (things closely related = close together in the brain)
St. Augustine? correct answers Advanced description of memory in Confessions; sense memory
and intellectual memory
What type of memory research occurred in the Roman Period? correct answers Interest in the
practical aspects of memory
- First mnemonic techniques
In the Dark Ages? correct answers Work/ interest in memory decreased
In the Renaissance Period? correct answers Practical use of memory (mnemonics)
16th Century? correct answers Beginnings of theoretical interest in memory
What did Alfred Binet contribute to Memory? correct answers Binet - Simon intelligence scales
- Experimentally studied prose memory
- Made several important discoveries (Serial Position Effect)
- Memory for meaningful material
Richard Semon? correct answers The 3-stage model: encoding, storage and retrieval
- Anticipated the encoding specificity principle and state dependent memory
Sir Frederic Bartlett? correct answers Constructionist; social aspects, range of stimuli and
method; How does prior use affect stimuli? Use of stigmas
Theodule Ribot? correct answers Memory impairment/ disease; neural network theories;
forgetting
Sigmund Freud? correct answers Infantile amnesia; effects of hypnosis on recall; the free
association method; repression hypothesis
Hermann Ebbinghaus correct answers First major scientific researcher
- Father of memory research
- Nonsense syllables, forgetting curve, learning curve, saving method, verbal learning approach
- If you wanted to understand memory, you needed to forget what you already knew
What did Plate believe about memory? correct answers Memory is soft and erodes with time
(wax tablet metaphor)
Aristotle? correct answers Focused more on the physiological location of memory, "learned by
the heart"
Aristotle's grandson, Erasistratus? correct answers Focused more on the nervous system
He was an Empiricist: laws of association (association of ideas), Connectionism: units of
memory = units of nervous system (things closely related = close together in the brain)
St. Augustine? correct answers Advanced description of memory in Confessions; sense memory
and intellectual memory
What type of memory research occurred in the Roman Period? correct answers Interest in the
practical aspects of memory
- First mnemonic techniques
In the Dark Ages? correct answers Work/ interest in memory decreased
In the Renaissance Period? correct answers Practical use of memory (mnemonics)
16th Century? correct answers Beginnings of theoretical interest in memory
What did Alfred Binet contribute to Memory? correct answers Binet - Simon intelligence scales
- Experimentally studied prose memory
- Made several important discoveries (Serial Position Effect)
- Memory for meaningful material
Richard Semon? correct answers The 3-stage model: encoding, storage and retrieval
- Anticipated the encoding specificity principle and state dependent memory
Sir Frederic Bartlett? correct answers Constructionist; social aspects, range of stimuli and
method; How does prior use affect stimuli? Use of stigmas
Theodule Ribot? correct answers Memory impairment/ disease; neural network theories;
forgetting
Sigmund Freud? correct answers Infantile amnesia; effects of hypnosis on recall; the free
association method; repression hypothesis
Hermann Ebbinghaus correct answers First major scientific researcher
- Father of memory research
- Nonsense syllables, forgetting curve, learning curve, saving method, verbal learning approach
- If you wanted to understand memory, you needed to forget what you already knew
