PS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Encoding Specificity Principle, Decay Theory, Source-Monitoring Error
Document Summary
Storage involves maintaining encoded information in memory over time. Attention involves focusing awareness on a narrowed range of stimuli or events. Levels-of-processing theory proposes that deeper levels of processing result in longer-lasting memory codes. Intermediate processing: auditory stimulus, deep processing, the meaning behind it. There are dimensions to encoding that can enrich the encoding process and improve memory. Self-referent encoding: involves deciding how or whether information is personally relevant. Short-term memory (stm) is a limited capacity store that can maintain unrehearsed information for up to about 20 seconds. Believed to be able to store / recall up to 7 + 2 or 7 2 (either 5 or 9) things at once. Chunks can increase the capacity of short term memory. A chunk is a group of familiar stimuli stored as a single unit. Long-term memory (ltm) is an unlimited capacity store that can hold information over lengthy periods of time. Thought to be permanent, but most likely is not.
