PSY100H1 Chapter 7: Summary of Chapter 7
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Encoding: forming a memory code (usually requires attention). Storage: maintaining encoded information in memory over time. Cocktail party phenomenon: attention involves late selection, based on the meaning of input. There is no evidence that memories are stored away permanently and that forgetting is all a matter of retrieval failure. www. notesolution. com. Stm and ltm are not separate memory stores. Both semantic encoding and interference effects have been found in research on stm. Clustering: tendency to remember similar or related items in groups. Conceptual hierarchy: multilevel classification system based no common properties among items. Schema: organized cluster of knowledge about a particular object or event abstracted from previous experience with the object or event. Semantic network: consists of nodes representing concepts, joined together by pathways that link related concepts. Connectionist/parallel distributed processing models: cognitive processes depend on patterns of activation in highly interconnected computational networks that resemble neural networks.
