PSYCH 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Endel Tulving
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Various processes utilized in transferring information from wm to ltm. Various processes utilized in transferring information from ltm to wm. Maintenance rehearsal simply repeating the information (e. g. , a phone #). Elaborative rehearsal--using meanings and generating connections to target information (e. g. , noticing similarity of phone number to birthdate or whatever) So--how target information is encoded affects how successful transfer to ltm is. Shallow processing little attention to meaning focus on physical features. Close attention to meaning; relate stimulus to something else. ): ask if study word rhymes w/another word. Deep: ask if study word fits (makes sense) in fill-in-blank sentence. Can"t just point to better performance w/former task this would be circular reasoning. So some argue that depth of processing has not been defined independently of memory performance. Levels of processing theory less influential now. Distinguish levels of processing in perception all the time. E. g. , identifying letters, words (vs. nonwords), meaning, etc. i. e. , early/simple vs. later/complex levels.
