PSY201H5 Lecture Notes - Encoding Specificity Principle, Procedural Memory, Hindsight Bias
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Human memory processed information that has been stored in neurons in our brain based on expectations and imaginations as much as concrete memory confabulation making up events that never truly happened o. Memories are biased perception/choosing/retrieving the process by which we observe, store, and recall information: may be visual, auditory, or tactile processes may involved multiple systems. Levels of processing shallow: structural encoding capital letters, what colour, etc. intermediate: phonemic encoding rhyming, homonyms, etc. o o: meaning or symbolism deep: semantic encoding. Mnemonic devices verbal mnemonic: acrostics, acronyms, and rhymes visual mnemonics. Make a picture in my head of what i need to remember link method o: method of loci route o, sq3r keyword difference between passive (30%) and active reading (85%) Storage assumes that memory consists of 3 stores: 1. sensory registers iconic (visual) echoic (auditory, 2. short-term memory (stm, 3. long-term memory (ltm)
