PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Confabulation, Overlearning, Prefrontal Cortex
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Memory confabulation - when you make up something, recalling something that you do not remember: encoding, storage, retrieval and forgetting, multiple memory systems. Automatic memory process - on 24/7 looking for threats. What we choose to ignore/pay attention to is often automatic. What is the spotlight analogy? the spotlight is your conscious attention recognition of meaning - attention is a limited resource, unconscious determines whether something is important or not, we decide whether we pay attention based on reward, punishment. Level of processing processing - form of encoding information shallow processing - unimportant, based on details intermediate processing - repetition. Is how most people learn deep processing -connecting, symbolism. Elaboration - a teacher gives you a story, anecdote, metaphor, we remember things much better. Visual image - multiple cues by storing information in visual database self referential encoding - studies show that people remember information more when it is about us. What is link method, method of loci, keyword.
