PSYCH 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Phonetics, Railways Act 1921, Interference Theory

• School: U of M
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 111
• Professor: Marion Perlmutter

Document Summary

Memory trace metaphor: store and retrieve memory traces. Short term memory: encode, store, retrieve data in info processing system. Sensory memory is a momentary preserver of stimuli. Short-term memory (stm) is a temporary work pad of the mind. Processes involved in getting information into or maintained in memory. Maintenance rehearsal: rote repetition maintains info in stm (repeating phonetics) Elaborative rehearsal: linking representations establishes info in stm (alphabet song, mnemonic devices) Shallow processing structural encoding: emphasize physical structure of stimulus. Intermediate processing phonemic encoding: emphasizes what words sound like. Deep processing semantic encoding: emphasizes meaning of verbal input. Recall is when the reproduction of information is required. Recognition is when only identification of information is required (easier) Context-dependency: need to match retrieval context to encoding environment. State-dependency: match of retrieval state ot encoding mood. Other info in memory makes it hard to distinguish. Proactive: older information interferes with retrieval of newer information. Retroactive: newer information interferes with retrieval of older information.