PSYB57H3 Chapter 6: Chapter 6
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Chapter 6: some psychologist believe that there is only 1 kind of memory storage but different kinds of processing take place in that store. Whether the words was in capital letters. Asked if it would fit into a particular sequence: each kind of question was different kind of processing. Acoustic processing: read the word and think on sound. Semantic processing: evaluate word meaning: depth greatest for third kind, and least for first kind, surprise memory test processed semantically remembered best then those processed acoustically. Alternative explanation: participants spent more time answering questions about sentences than capital letters: bower and karlin: studying memory for faces, rate face for honest deep semantic processing vs. gender rate (superficial) better memory for honesty. Memory was better for actions than thoughts, and better for memorable events over random ones: more distinct = more likely to be remembered. Unique locations and actions were better than frequent.
