PSY270H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Episodic Memory, Sentence Clause Structure, Donald O. Hebb

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY270H1
• Professor: Kristie Dukewich

Document Summary

Encoding: the process of acquiring information and transferring it into ltm. Coding refers to the form in which information is represented. Encoding refers to the process used to get information into ltm. Retrieval: the process of transferring information from ltm to working memory. Some methods of encoding are more effective than others. Maintenance rehearsal: repeating the information over and over again without any consideration of meaning or making connections with other information; helps maintain information in stm/wm, but it is not an effective way of transferring information into ltm. Elaborative rehearsal: occurs when you think about the meaning of an item or make connections between the item and something you know; is more effective at transferring information into ltm. Levels of processing (lop): a theory that memory depends on how information is encoded, with deeper processing results in better encoding and retrieval than shallow processing.