PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Auditory Cortex, Yield Sign, Eyewitness Memory
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Jill price was capable of remembering everything that happened last year and several years ago. Memory is the ability to store and retrieve information over time. Memories are the residue of those events, the enduring changes that experience makes in our brains and leaves behind when it passes. Memories are made by combining information we already have in our brains with new information that come in through our senses. Memory is influenced by the type of encoding we perform regardless of whether we consciously intend to remember an event or a fact. Three types of encoding processes are: elaborative encoding - the process of actively relating new information to knowledge that is already in memory. Thinking about a word"s meaning (semantic judgment) results in deeper processing-and better memory for the word later-than merely attending to its sound (rhyme judgment) or shape (visual judgment). First, visual imagery encoding relates incoming information to knowledge already in memory.
