COGNITION
STUDYING AND ENCODING MEMORIES
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Question
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the amount remembered depends on the time spent learning
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what is learned in one mood is most easily retrieved in the same mood
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information that is automatically processed is rarely forgotten
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our sensory memory capacity is essentially unlimited.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Ebbinghaus experimented with his own ability to remember using a list of nonsense syllables, which he attempted to recall after different lengths of time. His experiences and results revealed a number of key aspects of memory: Memories weaken over time.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ebbinghaus studied memory by tracking his ability to learn and recall nonsense syllables (e.g. LUK, ZIM, BOQ) under varying conditions. He used nonsense syllables because he found that meaningful words were easier to remember and feared that familiarity could bias his results.
Detailed explanation-3: -INTRODUCTION. Nonsense syllables consisting of two consonants separated by a vowel were originally proposed by Hermann Ebbinghaus as the proper material to be used in the experimental study of verbatim-memory, such material being of uniform difficulty, accurately measurable, available in sufficient quantity.
Detailed explanation-4: -Ebbinghaus discovered that the greatest amount of forgetting occurred soon after learning a list. After a rapid initial drop-off, the memory slowly weakened with time. The curve Ebbinghaus discovered is called the forgetting curve.