PSYCH 120A Chapter 6.3: 6.3
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Shallow processing: engaged in material in a superficial fashion. Deep processing: requires some thought about what the words mean. Level of processing impacts ltm with deeper processing leading to better memory. Attention to meaning may help you by facilitating retrieval of memory later on. E. g. cataloguing a book in a library doesn"t make it more firmly in the library but it is necessary to finding the book later on. Without it, people might not even know the book existed. Connections allow one memory to trigger another and then another so that you are led to the sought after info. Connections may link items or items and contexts. Words are more likely to be remembered if they appear in elaborate sentences than if they had appeared in simpler sentences. Deep and elaborate processing leads to better recall than deep processing on its own. Richness of the sentence offers the potential for many connections.
