PSY30400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Endel Tulving
Chapter 7: Long Term-Memory – Encoding, Retrieval, and Consolidation
Section 7.1:
• Encoding:
o process of acquiring information and transferring it into LTM
o Different from coding, which refers to the FORM in which information is
presented
▪ However, encoding refers to the PROCESS used to get information into
LTM
• Retrieval:
o process of transferring information from LTM to working memory
o main influence on retrieval = the way that information was encoded
• Ways to get information into LTM:
o 1. Maintenance Rehearsal:
▪ repeating over and over again
• not considering meaning or making connections with other
information
• results in POOR MEMORY
o 2. Elaborative Rehearsal:
▪ remembering something by considering meaning or making connections
to other information → better than maintenance rehearsal
• Levels of Processing Theory:
o memory depends on the depth of processing that an item receives
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