Human Memory — Psychology STD 11 Humanities — Question
CBSE BoardEnglish MediumSTD 11 HumanitiesPsychologyHuman Memory3 Marks
Question
Discuss the role of knowledge representation and organization in memory.
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Answer
Our memory system organizes its contents in such a way that right information is available at the right moment. Nature of organization in long-term memory:
Concepts: These are mental categories for objects and events, which are similar to each other in one or more than one way.
Concepts may also get organized in schema.
Schemas are mental frameworks which represent our knowledge and assumptions about the world e.g. think of a schema of kitchen in your house which contains cabinet for utensils, gas cylinder, gas stove, sink, chimney etc.
Concepts are catagorised but it also functions to organized similarities among other concepts based on common features e.g., the word mango is a category because different varieties of mangoes can be put within it.
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