PSYC 2143 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Free Recall, Encoding Specificity Principle, Autobiographical Memory
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Autobiographical memory: putting together episodic and semantic memory so you know what happened in your past. As time goes by you start to forget some of your memories. Negative memories are less likely to be semanticized. Short term memory- (cid:449)hat(cid:859)s i(cid:374) (cid:455)ou(cid:396) (cid:373)i(cid:374)d (cid:396)ight (cid:374)o(cid:449): wm a(cid:374)d stm are talking about the same thing, the difference is the way researchers talk about it. When the term stm is used we are talking about storing information. In ltm there are things that are coded (things stored in memory) Encoding: the process of acquiring info and transferring it into memory (stm- ltm) Retrieval: the process of getting info out of ltm (ltm-stm) Encoding is the creation of a memory. There are different ways of creating memories. One way of keeping information in stm is through maintenance rehearsal (repetition without consideration of meaning) Another technique that can be used is elaborative rehearsal (thinking about the meaning and making connections to previous knowledge)