PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Long-Term Memory, Connectionism, Semantic Network

• School: UTM
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100Y5
• Professor: Dax Urbszat

Document Summary

Storage:maintaining encoded information in memory over time. Retrieval: involves recovering information for memory stores. You need to focus your attention if you want to remember something. Attention involves focusing awareness on a narrowed range of stimuli or events. Selective attention: is critical for everyday functioning. Screening out most information in order to concentrate and focus on life. Early and late selection of information based on the meaning of the input. Attention filter is flexible and not fixed. Figure 7. 2 talks about the different levels of processing. Levels-of-processing theory states that deeper levels of processing results in longer-lasting memory code. Other dimensions to the encoding process and improve your memory. Elaboration is the process of linking a stimulus to other information at the time of encoding. Making reference to your own personal experiences. Imagery-the creation of images to represent the words being remembered. Easier to remember concrete images as a posed to abstract concepts like the truth.