PSYC 2650 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Mnemonic, Railways Act 1921, Prefrontal Cortex

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

Document Summary

Entering long term storage: rehearsal plays a vital role in long term memory. Active encoding: maintenance rehearsal is almost ineffective in promoting long-term memory, hippocampus and prefrontal cortex used when remembering words, learning is not a passive process, higher levels of activity lead to better memory. It is the approach that matters to memory: shallow processing with the intent to memorize or without the intent show similar, deep processing with the intent or without the intent to memorize also show similar results results. Meaning and memory connections: elaborative rehearsal will provide better memory, maintenance rehearsal can leave you with no memory at all. Promotion of retrieval through connections: several ways to facilitate memory retrieval, connections play a crucial role these are when one memory can trigger another can be led by connection to connection. Almost like a cascade of events: establishing these connections is a large part of what happens during learning.