PSYC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Long-Term Memory, Autobiographical Memory
24 Dec 2015
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Working memory correlates with verbal/linguistic skills and correlates with general intelligence. Three types: episodic (autobiographical memory), semantic (meaning, such as knowing the definition for a word), procedural (how-to-do-things, such as how do you tie a shoelace) The memory is also pretty poor in terms of remembering small details (try to remember what a penny looks like) Processing methods (levels/depth of processing): encoding, retrieval, application (eyewitness testimony) Rehearsal/more time/more effort means that it"s memorized better; for example, trying to judge a face being female/male vs. being honest/dishonest, it takes longer to judge honesty, and the face is recalled better. Primary effect: people tend to remember the earlier entries in a list better than the ones later in the list (they go over the earlier terms more) You remember distinct entries in a list better (like one word written in a different color from the rest); you remember the things that stand out (salient, emotional, pleasant)
