PSY 2012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Eidetic Memory, Visual Processing, Working Memory
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Our ability to hold on to information we"re currently thinking about, attending to, or processing actively. When you focus on how a sentence looks. When you focus on how a sentence sounds (acoustic) When you focus on the meaning of a sentence. Our memories are surprisingly good in some situations and surprisingly poor in others. In one ear, out the other = no _________ One bun - chunking two shoe- elaborate three tree - hippo camping four door - decaying door. Keyword method connecting two words together, casa and case = i have a case of beer in my casa (house) Music learning information put into a melody improves long-term retention. When encoding something in a certain place (external context), it is easier to retrieve that information if you are in the same place where you encoded it. It is easier for someone to remember something if they first learend it while in a certain psychological state.
