PSYC 2650 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Implicit Memory, Iconic Memory, Free Recall

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2650
• Professor: Roderick Barron

Document Summary

Paying close attention and elaborate upon how words relate to previous knowledge. Semantic) leads to better recognition than shallow (ex. letter case) (cid:1) (cid:1) Sentence: he met a ____ in the street, requires highest level of processing (cid:1) Level of processing influences retention, not intention to remember. Circularity: no independent definition of level of processing, deep or shallow level is only defined in terms of memory performance. Levels of processing framework only emphasized the encoding side of memory: doesn"t specifically deal w the relationship between encoding and retrieval (cid:1) (cid:1) State dependent learning: memory is better when act of remembering takes place in the same context in which info was learned, state is a retrieval path to previously learned info, studies done with: Emotional mood: effects are much smaller when the recognition is measured rather than recall (cid:1) (cid:1) Best recalled info learning on dry land and testing on dry land or same w underwater (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1)