PSYC 2650 Chapter Notes -Ram Parity, Childhood Amnesia, Amobarbital

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2650
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

Hippocampus and regions of prefrontal cortex) associated with greater probabilities of retention later on learning passive activity needed to lodge info into long-term memory study: Shallow processing participants engage info in relatively superficial fashion. Incidental learning learning in absence of any intention to learn (participants don"t know being tested in memory) Intentional learning participants know they"re tested on memory learn on purpose. Medium processing i. e. make judgements about rhyme. Deep processing think about meaning of items in recall, participants in deep processing + no intention to learn perform quite well; shallow processing + no intention to learn = rather poorly. Attention to meaning pays off for recall; attention to surface characteristics (?) produces little memory benefit. Moderate levels of processing (attention to rhyme) produce moderate level of recall performance deeper processing = better memory intention to learn adds nothing. Deep processing may influence subsequent events attention to meaning = recall by virtue of facilitating retrieval of memory later.