Psychology 2135A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Endel Tulving

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: John Paul Minda

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In the modal model: transferring to longer term memory: maintenance rehearsal, elaborative rehearsal. A mechanical process: repeating the info. Requires little effort: but there is also little payoff other than keeping stuff in working memory. Thinking about what the to-be-remembered items mean: how they are related to each other, how they are related to other things in their surroundings, how they are related to what you already know. Requires more efforts than simple maintenance rehearsal: better recall. Incoming stimuli are subjected to a series of processes: shallow, sensory level processes, deeper, semantic processes, deeper processing=better recall. Craik and tulving task: structural, phonemic, semantic, helf of the participants were not told about the memory task later, other half were told that there would be a memory task later. Semantic encoding still allowed for best recall, even when learning was unintentional. Incidental learning of complex sequences: each time you get to a circle, choose (based on a probability) which way to go.