PSYB57H3 Chapter 6: chapter 6
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The levels-of-processing view: argue that there is only one kind of memory storage, but different kinds of info processing take place within that store. (cid:222) Improvement in memory comes not from rehearsal and repetition but from greater depth of analysis of the material: experiment: craik and tulving. Present w/ a series of questions abt particular words, later give a surprise memory test. incidental learning (any learning happened to occur, inadvertently) Perhaps it"s because ps spent more time answering questions abt sentences than other questions. words fit into sentences showed poorer recall for simple sentences than complex sentences. The elaboration of material could also aid recall. Sentences that specified more precisely the relation of the target word to the context were more likely to recall the target word. view memory as a continuum of processes. e. g. the levels-of-processing approach can account for recalling material from unattended channel in dichotic listening tasks.
