PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter Module 7.2: Forgetting Curve, Flashbulb Memory, Mnemonic

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Paula Barata

Document Summary

The key terms related to forgetting, encoding and retrieval. How the type of cognitive processing employed can affect the chances of remembering what you encounter. What you have learned to improve your ability to memorize information. Whether emotional memories are more accurate than non- emotional ones. Simonides of ceos: a greek poet who (according to legend) was the first person to develop methods of improving memory. Encoding: is the process of transforming sensory and perceptual information into memory traces. Retrieval: is the process of accessing memorized information and returning it to short-term memory. Storage: the time and manner in which information is retained between encoding and retrieval. Rehearsal: the basics of encoding: repeating a piece of information over and over again until you no longer need to memorize it. Often times, it is an ineffective way of memorizing as demonstrated by craik and watkins in an experiment in the 1970s.