Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Thalamus, Decay Theory, Procedural Memory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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* memory- processes that allow us to record and later retrieve experiences and information. Encoding getting information into the system by translating into a neural code that your brain processes. Serial position effect vast library of more durable stored memories recall of information is influenced by a word"s position in a series of: when given a long list of words, the beginning and ending items. Primacy effect superior recall of early words words are most remembered: at first, brain rehearses beginning words, storing into long term memory, list gets longer, and short term memory fills up. Recency effect superior recall of recent words: last words remembered since they aren"t bumped out of short term memory by newer words. Effortful processing encoding that is initiated intentionally and requires conscious attention. Schema encoding that occurs without intention and requires minimal attention the more deeply we process information, the better it is remembered.