PSY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Habituation, Forgetting Curve, Overlearning

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 105
• Professor: William Huggon

Document Summary

Memory is the process by which we observe, store, and recall info. Retrieval is the reactivation or reconstruction of info from memory: encoding. To encode it we must first attend to it. Most events we experience are never encoded in the first place. Elaborative rehearsal: various ways; linking stimuli to each other in a. Shallow processing-visual-basically structural encoding (capital letters, what color etc) Intermediate processing: phonemic encoding; sounds: rhyming, homonyms, etc. When you imagine some image or event related to a term or concept to encode the info both phonemically (auditory) and visually. While applicable to almost anything, they depend on something you already know. Participants rated adjectives on 4 tasks designed to force varying kinds of encoding: structural, phonemic, semantic and self-reference. Participants were then asked to recall as many words as they could. Recall of the rated words indicated that adjectives rated under the self-reference task were recalled.