PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Long-Term Potentiation, Sensory Memory, Short-Term Memory

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

Encoding: getting the information in: not a single process, consists of multiple processes that allow us to acquire and retain information, automatic processing: not having to put effort to acquire information, effortful processing: putting effort into acquiring information. Rehearsal: repeating the information over and over again. Ebbinghaus: first to study memory in scientific way. Next in line effect: remembering the first few things to remember cause you had time to remember it and the last few things you cannot remember as clearly. The serial position effect: we have a better memory for the last few words and the first few words: primacy effect for the first few words, recency effect for the last few words. Spacing effect: more effective to study and restudy at different points in time than to cram at once. Testing effect: being restested over again is move effective than the spacing effect: elaborative processing: focus on the meaning rather than meaningless string of words.