PSY270H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Encoding Specificity Principle, Anisomycin, Procedural Memory

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY270H1
• Professor: David Chan

Document Summary

Ltm stored so many information and it explains that the more unique it will stand out more. Researchers have described two forms of rehearsal: maintenance and elaborative: short term is good at rehearsal/ maintenance : not doing anything to the information, we can manipulate information: predict and manipulate meaning elaborate information. Craik and tulving : demonstrated how elaboration aides us in memory call and he proposed level of processing. Answer questions about specific word -> dont need to understand the meaning about the word to answer the question. Last one is semantic : meaning the word needed to answer the question: train can have silver egine but if the word cow comes up it cannot be the answer. Monday, february 13, 2017: need to know the meaning of the word in order to answer it correctly. They wanted to see how train influence the recall.