PSY270H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Information Retrieval, Encoding Specificity Principle, Sentence Clause Structure
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7 long-term memory: encoding and retrieval: encoding. : process of acquiring information and transferring it into ltm: retrieval. : process of transferring information from ltm to working memory. Encoding: getting information into long-term memory: maintenance rehearsal and elaborative rehearsal , rehearsal. : repeating information over and over: maintenance rehearsal. : repeating an item to help maintain information in. Stm/wm: elaborative rehearsal making connections to transfer information to ltm. : occurs when thinking about the meaning of an item or. Levels of processing theory : levels of processing theory with deeper processing resulting in better encoding and retrieval than shallow processing. : memory depends on how information is encoded: the basic of levels of processing . Memory depends on the depth of processing that an item receives shallow processing. : involves little attention to meaning occurs when attention is focused on physical features, or during maintenance rehearsal deep processing and relating it to something else.
