PSYC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Trichromacy, Amacrine Cell, Hermann Von Helmholtz

• School: UConn
• Department: Psychological Sciences
• Course: PSYC 1100
• Professor: Eric Lundquist

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Stm not just storage box; more like cognitive workbench . Limit on storage capacity is viewed instead as limit on processing capacity. Used in all processing of information: mental calculation, reading, etc (16x231=?) What kind of encoding will be most successful?deeper (more meaningful) processing leads to better memory. Asked to use one of three strategies: Semantic (deep): does the word fit into the following sentence? (ex, a. Visual (recognized word least) acoustic semantic (recognized word most) When you understand something well and pay attention to the meaning of it end up understanding it more well. Transfer appropriate processing = do the processing that correlates with the required tasks. Way you encode info should be appropriate to the way you retrieve it. Long term vs. short term (working memory) Episodic (episodes, events with time and place) I saw an elephant at a zoo in 1988. Specific to you, on your personal timeline.