PSY 1101 Study Guide - Long-Term Memory, Multiple Choice, Railways Act 1921

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: A L L

Document Summary

Definition: complex mental processes including: encoding (acquiring, storage, retrieval. Maladaptive: when memories of past events are so overwhelming that they intrude into the present and prevent us from living in a healthy way. Ii: building information (encoding): 2 major ways: automatic processing: effortless, part of daily life, effortful processing: time, energy and effort are used to get info ex: rehearsal, review, tests. Examples of effortful processing: chunking: grouping info. Into manageable groups, by either breaking apart or joining pieces of: mnemonic devices: any trick or strategy to improve memory ex: tie a string on your finger to info. Acronyms are examples of this remember to buy bread: spacing effect: study and restudy material many times, but keep a time distance between each study period. Into hierarchies, like the nervous system: shallow processing: verbal info, paying slight attention yo a word, in italics or colour, deep processing: understand the material first, then memorize it.