PSYC 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Basal Ganglia, Explicit Memory, Memory Consolidation

• School: Binghamton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 111
• Professor: dr.duell

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Psyc 111 - lecture 14 - thinking and language. Organization of items into familiar, manageable units, often occurs automatically. Memory aids, especially techniques that use vivid imagery and organizational devices. Organization of items into a few broad categories that are divided and subdivided into narrower concepts and facts. Ex: outlining your notes using headings, subheadings, and definitions from your book. Encoding is more effective when it is spread over time. Massive practice: produces speedy short-term learning and feelings of confidence. Ex: practicing parts of a musical piece on your violin, not just the night before the concert levels of processing. Verbal information processed at different levels which affect long-term retention. Shallow processing encodes on a very basic level (word"s letters) or a more intermediate level (word"s sound) Deep processing encodes semantically based on word meaning if new information is not meaningful or related to our experience, we have trouble processing it.