PSYCH101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Free Recall, Classical Conditioning, Elizabeth Loftus

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Toni Serafini

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Space, time and frequency: effortful processing. Level of effort varies with carrying results. Deep processing (looking at meaning) a little more effort. Visual encoding help us to encode. Encoding mnemonics: specific visual and/or verbal memory aids. 3 types of mnemonic devices e. g. , rooms in houses or stores on street: keyword method. Create a word from first letters of items to be remembered. : homes used to remember great lakes: acronyms. A system in which items are organized from general to specific (e. g. the textbook is organized hierarchically) Processing effects: rehearsal effect, next-in-line effect says that when we are next in line. We are so focused on our own progress. We forget what the next person said: spacing effect- spacing your rehearsal over time. When you cram the night before, you won"t have the best result compared to spreading it out: serial position effect- the stuff that comes are the beginning of the list we are more likely to remember, storage.