PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Short-Term Memory, Long-Term Memory, Semantic Network

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Myriam Mongrain

Document Summary

Attention: entails a selective focus on certain input, enhances encoding. Levels-of-processing theory: proposes that deeper levels of processing result in more durable memory. Structural, phonemic and semantic encoding: represent progressively deeper levels of processing. Elaboration: the use of visual imagery, self-referent encoding and increasing the motivation to remember can enhance encoding and retention. Recall is often guided by partial information, as demonstrated by the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon. Reinstating the context of an event can often enhance retrieval efforts. Memories are sketchy reconstructions of the past that may be distorted. The misinformation effect occurs when a memory derived from one source is attributed to another source. Even the simple act of retelling a story can introduce inaccuracies into memory. A source-monitoring error occurs when a memory derived from one source is attributed to another source. Reality monitoring involves deciding whether memories are based on one"s perceptions of actual events or one"s thoughts and imagination.