Here are my notes on this topic:
1. Principles
- Some things are easier to remember than others
- positive
- distinctive
- meaningful
- related to you
- Memories stored in different media
- Two phases
- availability
- accessibility
- Cluster
- Creative Memory
- memory is generative
- Misinformation
- memory is actively updated
2. Memory Systems
- sensory
- procedural
- prospective
- declarative
- semantic
- episodic
- implicit
- muscle memory
3. Ebbinghaus
- Before memory
- Aristotle
- Descartes
- Ebbinghaus
- word-completion test
- complete this sentence
- color vision
- mental capacity
- Ebbinghaus’ illusion
- Already knew
- difficulty increases with list length
- frequent repetitions
- serial position effect
- Discoveries
- difficulty & amount learned not one to one
- forgetting curve
- within-list associations help
- overlearn
- total time hypothesis
- distributed practice
- 1 hour day
- 10k
4. Encoding
- encoding
- structuring
- retrieving
- forgetting
- not good at remembering nonsense syllables
- some things easier to forget than others
- loss depends on context
5. False memories
- photographs
- vividness
- eye-witness testimony
- smashed or bumped
- store recipe, not meal
- source monitoring
