PSYC 315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Metamemory, Order Of Operations, Free Recall
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Ltm: memory that may be held permanently. Primarily semantic: frost (1972, acoustic remembering songs. Consolidation: integrating new info into stored info. Being able to assess your own memory. Distributed practice better than massed practice (cid:498)spacing effect. (cid:499: rem theory. Categorical clustering (groups/packs-types of dogs), interactive images, pegword system, method of loci (map-landmark), acronyms (ex. Buying bread on way home from work, going to dentist on wednesday. Matching types of processes done during encoding with type of processes done at retrieval increases success. Stm: serial search: one-by-one search, parallel: all items processed at once. Or: exhaustive: all items in set are examined, self-terminating: after target is found, search stops. Ltm: types of cues you use to retrieve may affect what you can retrieve: free recall: say what comes to mind. Interference theory: proactive: old memories interfere with recall of new info, retroactive: new memories interfere with recall of old info. Remember 1st words on grocery list but not last.
