PS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Autobiographical Memory, Forgetting Curve, The Flaws
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Levels of processing: how deeply you attend/encode information, surface and deep, deeper = better memory. Reading the dog ran the more in-depth the more you remember type of dog, how fast did he run? . Organization: schema: comprehend information more, understand it more, a cluster of interrelated concepts that organize and encode general knowledge of people, objects, events, and procedures, ex. when someone says females . Information is stored based on meaning to us as individuals. Promotes organization of our memory system: bad news. May reconstruct information based on prejudices rather than the fact. Scrip"s: similar to schemas, sequence of actions/behaviours/events, action based, based on several experiences, examples: having to navigate driving, won"t get it till after a couple attempts. Stores facts and information can verbally say it/knowledge. Consists of motor skills, habits, simple classically conditioned response. How to ride a bike, you don"t declare that you can ride a bike you just do.
