PSY 164 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Pseudoword, Free Recall, Psy
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How many important details you"re taking in compared to surface details. Shallow: not really thinking about the meaning and the context. Deep: think about the meaning and the context of what your answer will be. The deeper the level of processing, the better the memory performance. You"re engaging in generating the context you"re memorizing that word in. Taking a connection between you and what you"re trying to memorize. Massed = long periods of time studying; leads to worse grades. Proactive: earlier stuff sticks and preventing later stuff from being remembered. Retroactive: later stuff sticks and knocks out the earlier stuff. Spaced = hour hour studying; leads to better grades. Study a nonsense syllable and an adjective studied in pairs. One condition: study all 8 lists on one day; other condition: 2 lists on 4 days. If you want to remember something later, test yourself and try to retrieve it while you"re initially encoding it.
