PSY 1001 Lecture 15: Lecture 15
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Interference: new stuff bumps old stuff ; old stuff interferes with new stuff. Craik"s levels-of-processing theory: processing during encoding affects how the memory is formed. Deep: (connections to other concepts) meaning of word, how it relates to other concepts, elaborate on material: time of encoding into ltm. Intuition: depend on recency effect and study the night before the exam. Cramming is massed practice, which isn"t a deep encoding process (no chance to elaborate, form connections) We want distributed practice, which lets you elaborate and form connections: context (environment) influences memory. Recall is better when it occurs in context in which material was learned. For durable memories, study under many different contexts (you don"t want to remember something only in one place!: group material in a meaningful way (the ltm equivalent of chunking) Types of retrieval: pathway, or cue, to a memory. Recognition: material acts as a cue (multiple choice exam)
