PSY270H1 Chapter : Ch7 Textbook Notes

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

Document Summary

Encoding, the process of acquiring information and transferring it into ltm. Coding, the form in which information is represented. Retrieval, process of transferring information from ltm into working memory. Maintenance rehearsal, maintains information in stm/wm but 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. Proposed by fergus craik and robert lockhart. Memory depends on how information is encoded. Deeper processing results in better encoding and retrieval than shallow processing. Depth of processing is determined by the nature of the task during encoding. Memory depends on the depth of processing that an item receives. Shallow processing involves little attention to meaning. Occurs when attention is focused on physical features, occurs during maintenance rehearsal. Focusing on an item s meaning and relating it to something else. Question presented, followed by a word, then participant responded.