PSY100H1 Lecture 5: lecture 5.docx

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Time is experienced as slower when in a bottom up processing frame. After one is older and they can do top down processing, everything is repeated experience wise so things get slower. Depressed people build a negative shema that affects their top down processing that affects everything in their lives. Top down is indespensible, but it can lead us to error. Self awareness helps lower the error in our top down processing. Craik and lockhart long term memory is based on meaning associations. Its not like we have some classification system by dewey decimal. C and l: levels of processing principle the ease of which we can retrieve a memory depends on the types of association that we form with that memory: Superficial processing- simply repeating the material to be memorized. Associations between the items and parts of the material. It is easier to remember more thigns that are associated than less things that arnt.