PSYCO258 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Memory Consolidation, Long-Term Potentiation, Anterograde Amnesia

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO258
• Professor: Weimin Mou

Document Summary

Encoding (chapter 5): the process of acquiring information and transferring it into ltm. Ways to encode, include: (i) (ii) (iii) using the word in a sentence. Coding (chapter 6): the form in which information is represented. Retrieval: the process of transferring information from ltm to working: for instance, you study for an exam. )f information is in ltm, but you can"t retrieve it, then it is of no help to you. Chapter focus: how is information encoded into ltm, consider retrieval and how it relates to encoding. There are a number of ways of getting information into ltm, some of which are more effective than others. Maintenance rehearsal: repeating over and over again without considering: example: holding a phone number in memory by repeating it over and over. the meaning or making connections with other information. You won"t remember the number when you wat to call it again later. connections to other information.