PSY 1101 Midterm: Revision Memory (All you need to know for midterms)

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Kenneth Campbell

Document Summary

Spacing efect: retain informaion beter when rehearsal is distributed over ime (because cramming is not a good way to remember) Serial posiion efect: where only first few & last few items will be remembered beter, in a long list of items. Visual: e. g. is the word writen in capital leters? (abstract words are harder to visualize and remembered e. g. hope, freedom vs pencil) Semanic: e. g. is the word an animal? (meaning of the word) Semanic is the processed deeper , and will be beter remembered. Chunking: by using acronyms, e. g. nasa, lol (laugh out loud), mrs gren . Peg-word system: one-bun, two-shoe, three-tree to memorize things. Memories for facts and experiences that can consciously recall. Require efort (e. g. recalling list of telephone numbers, list of historic ppl) Explicit memories that are extremely vivid, precise, concrete and long-lasing for personal, highly emoional event. Remembering what they are doing during the 9/11 events.