PSYCO258 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Encoding Specificity Principle, Free Recall, Anterograde Amnesia
12 Jan 2017
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Encoding: process of acquiring information and transferring it into ltm (by rehearsal!) Coding: the form in which information is represented. Retrieval: process of transferring information from ltm to working memory. Maintenance rehearsal: trying to remember something without any consideration of meaning or making connections with other info. Elaborative rehearsal: find a way to relate it to something meaningful making it easier to learn. Levels of processing theory: linking the type of encoding to retrieval. Depth of processinghas not been defined independentally of memory performance so circular reasoning. Depth of processing: o shallow: little attention to meaning/focus on physical features. o deep: close attention to meaning and relating it something else. Paired-associate learning, in which a list of word pairs is presented. Later, the first word of each pair is presented, and the subject"s task is to remember the word it was paired with. Self-reference effect: memory is better if you are asked to relate a word to yourself.
