PSY270H1 Lecture 6: psy270lec6
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Coding vs encoding: coding: form in which info is represented, encoding: process used to get info into ltm. Are memories accurate: people remember information they generate better than information that they hear or read. Idea of manipulation of taking information, changing it, adapting it to help solve a problem, moving it around in your mind: making meaning or connections. The rst task is about processing visual information. Less about visual information and more about auditory processing. They found that the imagery participants were twice as likely to remember the words: slameka and graf 1978 demonstrated an e ect called generation e ect. They had two groups, one group was asked to passively read a pair of words such as king-crown. The second group was asked to generate a word themselves, so king-cr____ The people that generated the word were more likely to remember it: generation e ect: people more likely to remember something if they.
