PSYC 107 Lecture 2: Lecture 2 PSYC 107.docx

• School: Texas A&M University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 107
• Professor: Lisa Geraci

Document Summary

The generation effect: anything you can read or hear, you are coming up with ways to help remember the information through cues, a cue that we use frequently is one associated with our self, self reference effect, study, half are placed in the read condition, the other half are placed in the generate condition, two groups like this are between subject, read condition. High l: test, hot cold (yes, short tall (yes, small tall (no, quiet loud (yes, right w (yes, night d (yes, high l (yes, quiet s (no, generation effect performs the best memory, ways to better your memory include flashcards, participation, writing out the answer, actively taken notes that are generative, teaching someone else, practice exams, an article titled the production effect showed that even better than generating the information is actually producing it (writing it down or saying it aloud), essentially, you are matching the testing conditions.