PSY100Y5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Procedural Memory, Field Dependence, Interpersonal Communication
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Need to pay attention to information to remember it. Attention involves focusing awareness on a narrowed range of stimuli or events. Structural, phonemic and semantic encoding involve progressively deeper levels or processing which leads to progressively better retention. Deep processing - semantic encoding: emphasizes the meaning of verbal input, ex: fit the word; he met a _____ on the street". Visual mnemonics: acrostics, acronyms, rhymes and narrative method, link method (forming mental images of items in a way to link them, method of loci (imaginary walk where images of items are associated with certain locations), keyword, sq3r. Idea that ease of retrieval of a memory depends on match of encoding with retrieval. Ex: reading multiple choice items in test book and then takes an essay exam will likely not do very well. When initial processing of information is similar to the type of processing required by the subsequent measure of retention.
