PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge, Illusory Correlation, Functional Fixedness

• School: UTM
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100Y5
• Professor: Dax Urbszat

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In the levels of processing model, describe and provide an example for deep processing. Deep processing or semantic encoding would include attaching meaning or symbolism to help remember a word, such as a visual imagery and meaningful examples. This method leads to superior retrieval of information: identify two types of verbal mnemonics and give an example for each. Acrostics are poems or sayings whose first letter from each word represents something to be remembered. Every good boy deserves fudge represents the lines of the treble cleft. Acronyms are words created wherein each letter represents something to be remembered. Roy: biv is a name that represents the colors of the visible light spectrum. Rhymes and songs are used to help remember things, such as i before e except after c : explain the recency effect. Semantics refers to the meanings of words. Syntax refers to the rules of sentence structure. Provide three pieces of evidence that suggest language development is innate.