PSYCH 240 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Retrograde Amnesia, Encoding Specificity Principle, Anisomycin
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Ways to transfer info. to ltm: maintenance rehearsal repeating/rehearsing over and over without consideration of meaning, usually results in poor memory (e. g. , repeating telephone number to remember it b) elaborative rehearsal. Remembering by considering meaning or making connections to other info. Results in better memory c) levels of processing theory. Memory retrieval is affected by how items are encoded d) self-reference effect. Memory is better if asked to relate an item to myself e) generation effect. Generating info rather than passively receiving retrieval cue: a word or other stimulus that helps a person remember info stored in memory f) testing effect testing results in better performance and retrieval of material. Best way to study for an exam: formulate questions and answer them !! Retrieval can be increased by matching the conditions at retrieval to conditions that existed at coding: encoding specificity. We encode information along with its context.
