PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Suggestibility, Anterograde Amnesia, Encoding Specificity Principle

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

Document Summary

Method of loci - method of memory enhancement that uses visual information to organize and recall information. Items are remembered based on association with specific locations and a mental walk is established, moving from one memory/location to the next. Memory is broken down into 3 steps: encoding - the process by which perceptions, thoughts, and feelings are transformed into memory. Storage - the process of maintaining information in memory over time: retrieval - the process by which information that was previously encoded and stored is brought to mind. Construction - creation of a new story from an original story. Elaboration - the degree to which information is specified, described, and/or related to other information in memory. Bartlett discovered we remember only bits and pieces and make up the rest, and also that people have better memory for narrative than for list of facts.