PSYC 301L Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Endel Tulving, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Long-Term Potentiation
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Encoding- process of acquiring information and transferring to ltm. Retrieval- process of transferring information from ltm to wm: dependent on the method of encoding. Maintenance rehearsal- encoding by repeating without taking meaning or connection to other information into account: results in poor memory. Elaborative rehearsal- encoding using meaning or connections to other information: better memory than maintenance rehearsal. Levels of processing theory- proposed by fergus craik and robert lockhart: memory is dependent on the depth of processing that an item receives, depth of processing- distinguishes between shallow and deep processing. Shallow processing- little attention to meaning and attention is mostly on the word"s physical features. Deep processing- close attention, focus on meaning and relationship to other things. Results in better memory: subjects were asked questions about a word"s physical features (shallow), rhyming (deeper) and meaning (deepest) Meaning resulted in the best memory: difficult to define depth of processing.
