PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Wax Tablet, Semantic Memory, Brain Tumor

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Christopher Miners

Document Summary

What memory is and how it is encoded. Identify and define the three components of memory: explain the effects of different levels of processing and types of elaboration on encoding. How memory is stored in the brain and how memory affects our daily lives: explain the different ways in which memories are stored. How memories are retrieved and how they affect behaviour: explain how memories are retrieved, develop a study plan based on what you have learned about memory. All memory tasks involve the basic processes of. This first topic deals with processing info and encoding memories. 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. ) also called the memory palace or memory walk. Metaphors for memory have followed the technology of the day.