PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Temporal Lobe, Forgetting Curve, Memory Consolidation
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Not the how long we rehearse but how we rehearse. Maintenance rehearsal: prolonging exposure to information by repeating it. Not the most effective way to remember. Longer rehearsal did not lead to better recall. Repeating information only has a small benefit, and isn"t increased with longer rehearsals. Elaborative rehearsal: prolonging exposure to information by thinking about its meaning. Additional sensory or semantic information is associated: levels of processing. Not all elaborative encoding is created equal. Shallow processing: superficial properties of a stimulus (ex: sound or spelling of a word) Deep processing: related to an item"s meaning or its function. Self-reference effect: thinking about information in terms of how it relates to you or how it"s useful to you. Survival processing: items are processed as they relate to survival. Effects limited to ltm; stm memory rates are unaffected. Recognition: identifying stimulus or piece of information when it"s presented to you (ex: multiple-choice questions)
