PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Semantic Network, Verbal Memory, Major Trauma

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Allan Greer

Document Summary

P2: retrieval from memory: process of activating a network from stm: not instantaneous from ltm: easier to recall info. B: semantic network: formed by related concepts, schema: grouping knowledge about a sequence of events, state/context dependent learning: material learned in a speci c physiological state, than it will best be remembered in that state. Ex: if you listen to music while studying you"ll do well if you listen to music during the exam. 2: deep: meaning behind the material and what it represents intermediate: if it rhymes with another word etc. Traumatic events may cause the person to repress the memory of them and are remembered through ashbulb/vivid memories. Memory is affected by: meaningfulness of the material, its similarity to other things, how. Techniques to improve memory: acronyms, coding, imagery, grouping etc many times it was learned, what the distribution of the learning was: grouping: by colour, type, size, coding: acronyms and acrostics.