PSY 654 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Piggy Bank, Retrograde Amnesia, Episodic Memory
14 Dec 2015
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Maintenance rehearsal: repeating ones self stored in ltm. After output the information will probably not be it. What does it do, what is it like, what do i know about. More likely to get this info into ltm. The more meaning you give to the material the more likely it will be stored. Deeper is better (craik & lockhart-1972: the more resources employed at encoding the more likely the material will be remembered when retrieved. Can you play it on a table: but levels of processing cannot be evaluated independently from memory performance. Interact (bower & winzenz-1970: showed that things are better remembered when interactive mental imagery is produced for them, have the items interact with each other helps memory. Put the cone on the piggy banks head. Organize (bower-1969: showed that items are better remembered when items are structured into meaningful groups or hierarchy.
