Applied Memory and Learning - Exam

All Lectures, Chapters 1-7, 9

What is Applied Research?

• methodology used to solve specific/practical problems

What is the Goal of Applied Research?

• practical use

What is Memory?

• memory is central to everyday congnition

• can use past expierneces to interpret our world of the present and plan for the future

• enables us to pass seamlessly through our busy environment

How did Applied Memory Research Develop?

• need to look at the history of psychology

Who is Hermann Ebbinghaus?

• 1885 - 1913

• studied his own memory

• had his own standardized method

What is Hermann Ebbinghaus’ Standardized Methods?

• serial list of non-sense syllables

What Happened Period Prior to the First World War?

• research focused on eyewitness testimony and memory for advertisment

• after the first world war, this changed in the USA

What School of Psychology Became Dominant in American Universities?

• behaviourism

• there was a greater focus on basic processes of learning in animals and humans

• neglect of anything overtly mentalistic

What did Researchers want to Understand?

• human memory

• they did not analyze everyday experinces but rather through the rigorous research methods developed by Ebbinghaus

What is Paired-Associate Learning?

• free recall

• cued recall

What is Free-Recall?

What is Cued-Recall?