PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Blind Experiment, Long-Term Memory

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: all

Document Summary

Levels (depths) of processing approach: how good our long term memory is, is partly dependent on how deeply our thoroughly we processed the information to begin with. Level 1: structural encoding: processing words according to their appearance. Level 2: phonemic encoding: processing the information more clearly. Level 3: semantic encoding: encoding information according to its meaning. We really have to process and think about it. Helps us to keep things in our long-term memory. Some researchers believe there are different memory systems. Procedural memory system: memory for how to do things. It often becomes automatic after repetition. (e. g. , riding a bicycle after some time, driving a car after doing it for a while, typing on a keyboard). Declarative memory system: memory for information or facts. Two types: semantic memory: general information, or things that we have over-learned. They kiss. : episodic memory: memory for specific events or episodes.