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Human Memory: complete notes
Neat, exam-ready notebook-style notes for Human Memory, following your NCERT book. This chapter is part of the complete Complete Psychology Notes for Class 11 (CBSE 2026-27).
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Topics in this chapter ★★★ very important · ★★ important · ★ asked sometimes
- 6.1 Nature of memory ★★★
- 6.2 Stage model (Atkinson and Shiffrin, 1968) ★★★
- 6.3 Levels of processing (Craik and Lockhart, 1972) ★★★
- 6.4 Types of long-term memory ★★★
- 6.5 Nature and causes of forgetting ★★★
- 6.6 Enhancing memory ★★★
- Multiple choice: 20 MCQs
Last-night summary
- Levels of processing (Craik–Lockhart 1972): structural, phonetic, semantic (deepest). LTM: declarative vs procedural; episodic vs semantic (Tulving); flashbulb, autobiographical (childhood amnesia), implicit. Measurement: free recall, recognition, sentence verification, priming.
- Forgetting: Ebbinghaus curve (first hour, 9 hours); trace decay (sleep evidence against); interference — proactive, retroactive; retrieval failure (cues, Tulving); repression, amnesia, fugue. Mnemonics: keyword, loci, chunking, first letter; deep processing, minimise interference, retrieval cues; PQRST (Thomas–Robinson).
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