PSY270H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Retrograde Amnesia, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Episodic Memory
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Encoding: process of acquiring information and transferring it into long-term memory (ltm). maintenance rehearsal: repeat over and over elaborative rehearsal: making connections with info - better memory. Retrieval: transferring information from ltm into working memory. Levels of processing theory states that memory depends on how information is encoded or programmed into the mind. According to this theory, shallow processing is not as e ective as deep processing. The idea of levels of processing, while in uential, su ers from the problem of circularity, because it is di cult to de ne depth of processing independently of memory. Retrieving long-term memories is aided by retrieval cues. Retrieval can be increased by matching conditions at retrieval to conditions that existed at encoding. This is illustrated by encoding speci city, state-dependent learning, and matching type of processing (transfer-appropriate processing). encoding speci city: we learn information along with its context.
