PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Roygbiv, Information Processing, Spreading Activation

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO104
• Professor: Claire Scavuzzo

Document Summary

Do not have record of everything experienced. Frequency, sequence, timing of events versus semantic/episodic. Encoding on a semantic level is the best way for information to stay in long-term memory. The deeper we process the more likely we are to encode it. Elaborate on the stimuli by linking them in meaningful way. Visualize, understand interrelationships, semantic, good study habit (better connect with known information rather than repeat it). Can be applied to variety of info. Depend on having previous knowledge work best if already learned it. Roygbiv (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet). Picture the number of windows in your childhood home. Information stored in two forms verbal and nonverbal (visual) Harder to remember abstract words that lack mental image knowledge, jealousy, abstract words encoded semantically rather than visually. Depends on expectation sand interpretations of content. Organized knowledge structure or mental model that we have stored in memory. Schemas provide a frame of reference to interpret new situation.