PSYC 3260 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Amygdala, Anterograde Amnesia, Retrograde Amnesia

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3260
• Professor: Norman Park

Document Summary

Encoding: acquiring information and transforming it into memory. Maintenance rehearsal: maintains information but does not transfer it to ltm. Elaborative rehearsal: transfers information to ltm. Levels of processing theory: memory depends on how information is encoded, depth of processing. Shallow processing: little attention to meaning (poor memory) Deep processing: close attention to meaning (good memory) Deciding how useful an object might be on a desert island: can empirically measure the memory trace in each condition. Conclude that stronger memory trace must have been caused by deeper processing: but depth of processing has not been defined independently of memory performance. Imagery: creating connections, cues for remembering, self-reference effect, generation effect, organizing to-be-remembered information, testing. Organization, comprehension, and memory: bransford & johnson (1972, presented participants with difficult-to-comprehend information. Experimental group 1 first saw a picture that helped explain the information. Experimental group 2 saw the picture after reading the passage. Control group did not see the picture: group 1 outperformed the others.