AUPSY 263 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Endel Tulving

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Augustana Faculty - Psychology
• Course: AUPSY 263
• Professor: Kathie Bailey

Document Summary

Depth of processing promotes recall by facilitating retrieval. Consider learning as a way to establish indexing, a path to the information. Connections between items to be remembered facilitate retrieval. Simple sentences lead to worse memory (less likely to remember) Argued that they key to creating connections in the material to be remembered is organization. We memorize well when we find order in the material. Peg word systems: items are hung on a system of already well known pegs . One is a bun, two is a shoe, three is a tree, four is a door . Connecting information that you need to remember to the imagery of the pegs (bun, shoe, tree, door ) First letter mnemonics: using the first letter to remind you of the information that you"re trying to remember. Memory is facilitated by organizing and understanding. What the memorizer was doing at the time of the exposure matters. The background knowledge of the memorizer matters.