PSYC 100 Chapter Notes -Procedural Memory, Suggestibility, Flashbulb Memory

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Rana Pishva

Document Summary

Encoding: perceptions, thoughts, feelings transformed into memory; created into a mental representation. Storage: maintaining information in memory over time. Retrieval: information previously encoded and stored is recovered. Levels-of-processing-effect: encoding is improved when information is processed more thoroughly. Actively relating new knowledge to knowledge already stored in memory. Memory tricks; strategies used to improve memory. Chunking: organizing individual items into larger groups. Method of loci: using visual imagery to encode information; associations with specific locations, etc. Sensory memory: representations of the physical features of a stimulus are stored for brief periods, two types. Short-term memory: holds information long enough to accomplish the intended purpose for the information, working memory. Active maintenance of information in short-term storage. Primacy effect: remembering earlier information in a series of information. Recency effect: recalling later information in a series of information. Long-term memory: storage of information on a permanent or near-permanent basis, explicit memory. Can be fully described verbally, are consciously and intentionally retrieved: eg.