PY - Psychology PY 100S Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Sensory Memory, Forgetting Curve, System On A Chip

• School: NMU
• Department: PY - Psychology
• Course: PY - Psychology PY 100S
• Professor: Kapla

Document Summary

Encoding: putting information into a form that our memory system can use. Process of putting information into a form that the memory system can accept and use: acoustic codes, visual codes, semantic codes. Episodic when: recall of personal events you witnessed. Semantic what: memory of generalized world knowledge. Procedural how: memory about how to do things. Maintenance rehearsal: repeating information over and over to keep it in active memory i. e. grocery lists, phone numbers. Elaborative rehearsal: relates new information to information already in memory. You note that your new customer lives on the same street as your grandma. Memory depends on how the encoding process matches up with what is ultimately retrieved: e. g. , multiple choice vs. essay exams. New facts are not disconnected and independent. New experiences provide specific information and also become part of, and alter, a whole network of associations in a person"s overall knowledge base.