PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Encoding Specificity Principle, Long-Term Memory, Procedural Memory

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Jill Bee Rich

Document Summary

Procedural memory: goes by what we do, i. e. typing. Involves the memory for general information and for things that we have over- learned. These memories are not linked with a particular time etc. Implicit memories incidental memories: episodic memory. Memory for specific events and these are usually unique rather than repeated ones. Explicit memories trying intentionally to memorize something. Inability to recall from long term memory: the info never made it to ltm (pseudo-forgetting) Why is info not accessible: encoding specificity principle or concept dependent formation. Questions don"t match during retrieval and encoding. More complex the information in the retention interval makes things more difficult to recall. Retroactive interference: where new information interferes with the recall of older, previously learned, information. Proactive interference: when old information interferes with the recall of newer, recently learned, information. Better recall in level 3 of memory: structural encoding (level 1) just need to know structure of the word.