PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Encoding Specificity Principle, Elizabeth Loftus, Procedural Memory
16 Apr 2016
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Make sure to know all for exam 1: information is sometimes available in memory even when it is not accessible, retrieval cues: external information that helps bring stored information to mind. State dependent retrieval: tendency for information to be better recalled when the person is in the same state during encoding and retrieval. Transfer/context-dependent processing: memory is likely to transfer from one situation to another when the encoding context of the situations match. Required for the activation of information in ltm. A yearbook photo can activate memories about that person. Generating your own association (e. g. , big hair, outgoing, had a brother. 3 associations can generate high rates of recall. We retain procedural memories like walking, drinking, pulling a wagon. Also retain semantic memories from early life names, words and meanings. But young children don"t encode well or retain early episodic memories (memories of events). Lack of sense of self, lack of language for encoding, focus on routines, cognition is immature.
