PSC 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Card Sorting, Microsoft Powerpoint, Developmental Psychology
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January 19, 2017: chapter 4 & 5: encoding, learning principles, total time hypothesis the amount learned is a direct function of the time spent learning. *faster learning with distributed practice (two 1-hour blocks vs one 2-hour blocks) Craik & tulving (1975: study a list of words: Shallow lower processing; if words have upper case". Kapur et al. , (1994) pet study of lop. *living/nonliving judgements (i. e. , semantic processing) led to greater left prefrontal cortex activity than a-checking judgements (i. e. , perceptual processing: semantic processing involves the left prefrontal cortex. *intention did not always help: the organization effect organized material is better remembered than disorganized material. Deese (1959) participants were presented with 3 different kinds of 15 word lists that varied in terms of how organized they were. *organization increased recall: the distinctiveness effect memory is best for novel/isolated items. ***brain areas important for this effect: hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, amygdala***
