PSYC 2650 Lecture 6: W6L1

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2650
• Professor: Chris Fiacconi

Document Summary

Sensory memory: people extract info from sensory memory trace; flash of letters and report letters or wait till tone and report. Partial report: report one of three rows, shows we are able to remember all three rows but do better when we only have to report one. Primacy effect: transfer to ltm and recency effect stm. Craik & lockhart (1972): how we interact with information will dictate how well we remember these things later on. More meaning to the word the longer it takes you to answer; more processing is needed and these words are also better remembered in recognition task. Lop effect foes not just reflect differences in time spent processing item at encoding. Instead type of processing and integration with existing knowledge critical (integration more effective in yes decisions) When semantic processing is beneficial for memory, how the information is remembered but how it is tested.