PS102 Lecture Notes - Connectionism, Semantic Network, Long-Term Memory
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Chapter 7: memory: encoding input into our brains; involves forming a memory code. Attention/processing: you must pay attention in order to get it into your brain, we must selectively attend to important information, types of processing: Structural encoding (1) very shallow, visual and physical stimuli processing (angles, shading) Phonemic encoding (2) intermediate, sounds and objects. With high cognitive loads, early filtering of the above are being filtered out. Semantic encoding (3) at a deep level, the deepest type of coding that can be made, what the words mean. With low cognitive loads, late filtering of the above occurs. If you do not filter soon, you are using divided attention. When we use divided attention we are not processing the information. How to enhance encoding (every student owns a visa: elaboration (linking the stimulus to other information) Makes the information distinct and therefore more retrievable: visual imagery. Allows dual coding of words and pictures.
