PSY 211 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Memory Consolidation, Information Retrieval, Retrograde Amnesia
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Maintenance rehearsal - rehearsal that involves repetition without any consideration of meaning or making connections to other information. Results in little or no encoding an therefore poor memory. Elaborative rehearsal - rehearsal that involves thinking about the meaning of an item to be remembered or making connections between that item and prior knowledge. Levels of processing theory - early idea linking the type of encoding to retrieval. Depth of processing - idea that the processing that occurs as an item is being encoded into memory can be deep or shallow. Shallow processing - involves little attention to meaning. Deep processing - involves close attention and elaborative rehearsal that focuses on an item"s meaning and its relationship to something else. Deep processing results in better memory than shallow processing. Three types of questions were designed to create different levels of processing.
