PSYC 1020H Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Suggestibility, Hyperthymesia, Autobiographical Memory
7 Dec 2016
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Storage involves maintaining encoded information in memory over time. Retrieval involves recovering information from memory stores. Attention involves focusing awareness on a narrowed range of stimuli or events. Selective attention is critical to everyday functioning. Emphasizes the physical structure of the stimulus. Levels-of-processing theory proposes that deeper levels of processing result in longer-lasting memory codes. Elaboration linking a stimulus to other information at the time of encoding. Would the word fit in the sentence: (cid:498)(e met a _______ on the street? (cid:499) Let(cid:495)s say you read that phobias are often cased by classical conditioning, and you apply this idea to your own fear of spiders. High-imagery words are easier to remember than low-imagery words. Dual-coding theory holds that memory is enhanced by forming semantic and visual codes, since either can lead to recall. Imagery provides a second kind of memory code. Self-referent encoding involves deciding how or whether information is personally relevant.
