PSYC 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Interference Theory, Sleep Deprivation, Psych

• School: Irvine Valley College
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 6
• Professor: cassens

Document Summary

Mental representation- a category that shares certain features (fur and barking) More deeply an item is encoded, more meaning it has, easier to. Stored by meaning and depth of mental processing remember. Different types of rehearsal lead to different levels of encoding. Maintenance rehearsal(rote)- repeating the item over and. Elaborative rehearsal- encodes information in meaningful over ways thinking about item conceptually or deciding whether it refers to oneself (linking it to knowledge from long-term memory) Visual judgement- what each word looks like. Semantic is deepest level, so remembered best. Levels of processing theory- shallow processing, moderate. Proactive interference- first thing studied interferes with. Schemas- structures in long-term memory that help us perceive organize, process and use information. People alter information to make sense from their own cultural standpoint. Helen keller schema made them remember she was deaf, mute, blind even though it was not included in story. Also include how we encode information in our daily lives.