PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Connectionism, Short-Term Memory, Encoding Specificity Principle

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Gordon Anderson

Document Summary

Encoding requires attention (focusing awareness on a narrowed range of stimuli or events) When people are forced to divide their attention between memory encoding and other tasks- reductions in memory performance are seen. Early selection models: input is filtered before meaning is processed. Late selection models: input is filtered after meaning is processed. Stimuli sensory detection recognition of meaning response selection . Craik & lockhart- different rates of forgetting occur because some methods of encoding create more durable memory codes than others. Incoming information can be processed at different levels. Sematic encoding can be enhanced through elaboration (linking a stimulus to other information at the time of encoding (i. e. additional associations). Visual imagery concludes it is easier to create images from concrete objects (juggler), than it is of abstract objects (truth). Paivio"s dual-coding theory- imagery facilitates memory because it provides a second kind of memory code, two codes are better than one.