PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Frontal Lobe, Long-Term Memory, Memory Consolidation
16 Sep 2016
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Difference between mindless information and attentive information (ex. : what did you eat for breakfast vs biggest fear as a kid) Elaborative/semantic encoding: process of actively relating new information to knowledge that is already in memory. Visual imagery encoding: process of storing new information by converting it into mental pictures. Organizational encoding: process of categorizing information according to the relationships among a series of items. Semantic encoding: focus on the meaning of a stimulus: for physical actions, such as learning sports or playing musical instruments, we code patterns of movement (motor encoding). Codes do not have to conform to original stimulus you read words, but likely do not store images of the letters; rather, you see/read words and use semantic encoding because you remember what the word means. Depth of processing facilitates memory: the more deeply we process information, the better it will be remembered.
