PSYC 2650 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Semantic Similarity, Implicit Memory, Self-Reference

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2650
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

Things to remember for cognitive psych midterm 2. Retention savings = (study time before study time after) (study time before) Measuring study time for 2 perfect recitations. Interested in what you are studying / relevance to you, will decrease rapid loss of information. Forward associations show retention savings for learning forward list greater than random list. Backwards associations show retention savings for learning backward list greater than random list. Strengths: selection of stimuli, independent measure, innovative dependent measure. Storage forward and backward associations (serial order) The more you understand material, the more likely you will remember it in 5, Elaborative recalled more than control group (doctor hated lawyer) Personalizing and reflecting on material (elaboration and deep processing) leads to best recall. Meaningful elaboration (test cues by having same recall word, one is semantically related the other rhymes, find that semantically related cue is more effective, this is because it involves deeper processing.