PSYCH 133F Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Mnemonic, Implicit Memory, Spreading Activation
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Learning any relatively permanent change in thought or behavior as a result of experience. Cognitive approaches focus on the changes in thought that are part of learning. Memory the active mental mechanism that enables people to retain and retrieve info about past experience. Context the learning environment is important. 3 basic operations of memory models: 1. Encoding how you turn a sensory input into a representation that goes into memory: 2. Storage how you retain encoded info in memory: 3. Retrieval how you gain access to info stored in memory. *testing yourself is a good learning tool because you are alternating between the 3 stages and not just repeating the info back to yourself (encoding and storage) and hoping you"ll be able to retrieve it later. 3 memory stores info is encoded into: sensory register, short-term memory, & long-term memory. Sensory register where info is first stored when it is sensed. Maintenance rehearsal simply repeat items to be learned.
