PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Childhood Amnesia, Cerebral Cortex, Encoding Specificity Principle

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Gerry Goldberg

Document Summary

Memory: chapter 8 review answers: short-term memory holds the information we are conscious of, it consciously processes codes and works on information. The limitations of short-term memory are that you can only hold so much information at a time, therefore a small capacity and also a short duration of time. The primacy effect reflects the superior recall of early words. The recency effect is the superior recall of the most recent words: the concept of depth of processing means that the more deeply we process information, the better it will be remembered. Semantic encoding involves the deepest processing because we have to understand and look at the meaning of the word or information shown. So this may take time and effort to comprehend and make sense of: hierarchies- memory is enhanced by associations between concepts. This can enhance memory by using a cue to help you remember other words that somehow link to that first cue.