PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Encoding Specificity Principle, Henry Molaison, Echoic Memory
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Memory does(cid:374)"t always (cid:272)o(cid:373)e whe(cid:374) you wa(cid:374)t it to a(cid:374)d so(cid:373)eti(cid:373)es it (cid:272)o(cid:373)es whe(cid:374) you do(cid:374)"t (cid:374)eed it to. Central executive: magic number: 7 +/- 2 items/units can be remembered in short-term memory. E. x. workbench metaphor. only 7 +/- 2 items can be on it. when you put something new on it, something old falls off. Encoding: transfer from short-term memory to long-term memory for information to be remembered, it needs to be encoded to long-term memory. October 20, 2016 learning how to do this will make you a better student: encoding strategies: impoverished encoding: feature based learning. poor retention because no patterns and connections. Elaborate encoding: create a system that has many integrations. good retention because patterns and connections are made long-term memory: unlimited capacity memory: craik & lockhart: levels of processing model. More associations formed using a memory = easier to retrieve that memory long-term memory is largely based on meaning and rich sensory associations.
