PSY372H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Distributed Memory, Long-Term Memory, Encoding Specificity Principle
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Graph: although the memory is worse for the rhyming task overall, but having the information processed in the rhyming manner has better performance than in the sentence level. Why is distributed memory better for both short term and long term memory: you don"t give the information a time to be consolidated. There are proteins that are growing in our brain, and those takes time. (ltp: less sleep, if you are cramming, the information are all fresh, and ou think you know it. You are not properly know it: information is fresh, you think you know everything. If you encode in different context, you will be more likely to have a match. Learning specificity can do the match when you encoded in different environment. Seeing face and paired with name, you will learn that in a video. You are getting better with the practicing trials.
