Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Alan Baddeley, Ulric Neisser, Fergus I. M. Craik

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Shauna Burke

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George miller (1956): 7 items + or - 2 at same time. Elaborate rehearsal: focusing on meaning of info or relating it to other things we already know: putting short term memory to work . Working memory: actively & simultaneously processes different types of info, supports cognitive functions (i. e. problem solving, planning), interacts w/ long term memory. Effortful & automatic processing: effortful: encoding is initiated intentionally & requires conscious attention; ex. studying, automatic: encoding occurs without intention & requires minimal attention; ex. reading, remembering yesterday"s events. Levels of processing: when deeper is better: structural: notice how word looks; ex. Potato: phonological: saying word out loud & matching it to other word; ex. horse & course, semantic: what word means; ex. This man peeled the potato, not table: levels of processing (fergus craik & robert lockhart, 1972, 2008): more deeply we process info the better it will be remembered; semantic (deepest), phonetic (deeper), structural (shallow)