PSYC 2650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Navigational Instrument, Long-Term Memory, Episodic Memory

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2650
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

Meaningful elaboration shallow processing: meaningful (deep) processing of to-be-remembered information leads to better memory than, levels of processing has an effect on our ability to encode and later retrieve memories, not all elaborations are created equal. Self-reference: kind, rigid, brave, selfish, does this word have an e ? (shallow, does this word describe you? (deep, performance in the self-reference condition was close to perfect, whereas performance in the shallow processing condition was significantly poorer. It was still there, but wasn"t accessible the first time you wanted it. 2nd memory test: immediately after studying: unchanged: 78% recall, changed: 43% recall, this offers evidence to suggest that we do not lose our memory but are simply unable to retrieve items in certain situations. Recognition is not always easier than recall: recognition test: circle names recognized as a person who was famous before 1950 (eg. doyle,