PSY270H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Caudate Nucleus, Temporal Lobe, Free Recall

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY270H1
• Professor: Christine Millicent Burton

Document Summary

Inability to retrieve information increase as the time since the information was learned increases. Neural process by which memories are strengthened and more permanently stored in the brain. Memory stored in hippocampus and gradually transferred to cortical areas of the brain for more permanent storage. Sleeping between the study and test of information you want to remember will help you retrieve that information from ltm. Sleep group show less forgetting than group that did not. An effect showing better memory for information encoded with deep processing than with shallow processing. The deeper information was encoded, the better it was remembered. Processing of information according to its meaning to allow for longer storage in memory. Subjects study words while answering different questions about the words. As the depth of processing at encoding increased, memory performance on a later recognition test increased. Because ltm is organized primarily according to the meaning of information.