PSYB57H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Autobiographical Memory, Retrograde Amnesia, Forgetting Curve
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Levels of processing: levels of processing: continuum that ranges from registering an event purely in terms of its physical characteristics to analyzing it in terms of its relationship to other things that you know. Elaboration and distinctiveness: elaboration: adding to or enriching information by relating it to other information, distinctiveness: the prediction with which an item is encoded. Levels of processing and aging: specific and general levels of representation: as people age, they tend to forget specific details but to remember deeper, more general, meanings.
