BCS 111 Chapter 9: Textbook Reading 9

• School: University of Rochester
• Department: Brain and Cognitive Sciences
• Course: BCS 111
• Professor: Yang

Document Summary

Method of loci: requires learner to imagine a series of locations that have some sort of order to them. Interacting images: like if you"re asked to remember the word pair goat-pipe , you can imagine a goat smoking a pipe and this will make it so you"re more likely to remember it. Pegword method: picturing the items with another set of ordered cues (pegging them to the cue)the cues are not locations but rather nouns that come from a memorized rhyming list . One is a bun, two is a shoe and then you would picture the first item interacting with a bun, the second with a shoe, etc. Dual-coding hypothesis of memory: ltm contains two distinct coding systems (or codes) for representing info to be stored. One is verbal, containing info about an item"s abstract, linguistic meaning. The other involves imagery: mental pictures that represent what the item looks like.