PSY BEH 11B Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Episodic Memory, Forgetting Curve, Procedural Memory
29 Mar 2018
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Intentional learning: placing new information into memory in anticipation of being tested on it later. 17762001066: do it in years, maintenance rehearsal, mechanical repetition of material without thinking about its meaning or patterns, ex. Rhyming words: deep processing, an approach to memorization that involves focusing on the meaning of the stimulus, ex. Putting it into a sentence: recalled better than shallow processing, mnemonics, deliberate techniques people use to memorize new materials, ex. Roy g biv: method of loci, visualizes items in a different spatial location, ex. Going to your hometown and remembering memories: retrieval paths, the mental connections linking one idea to the next that people use to locate a bit of information in memory, ex. Dogs and wolves have sharp teeth: context reinstatement, a way of improving retrieval by recreating the state of mind that accompanied the initial learning, ex.
