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Cog Psych Chapter 7
Encoding
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Psychology
Undergraduate 4
10/20/2011

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Encoding
Definition
Acquiring info and forming a memory record
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Storage
Definition
Maintaining the record over time
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Retrieval
Definition
Accessing and using the info
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Maintenence Rehearsal
Definition
Simple repetition
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Elaborative Rehearsal
Definition
Consider meaning and make connections between item and old info
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Craik and Lockart Levels of Processing Theory
Definition
Memory depends on how info is encoded
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Shallow Processing
Definition
Little attention to meaning
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Deep Processing
Definition
Focus on meaning and relating to other info
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Chailk and Tulvig deep processing experiment
Definition
1. Shallow processing describe characteristics of word
2. Medium find a rhyme with word
3. Deep fill in meaning for word
When deep processing had best recall later
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Factors that aid encoding other than level of procesing
Definition
1. Creating Images
2. Self Reference Effect
3. Organizing Info
4. Generating Info
5. Testing Self
Term
Generate Information Study
Definition
List of 600 words, subject generate three adjectives
Surprise Memory Test: Remembered 540 words
Did better if generated adjectives on own
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3 Methods of Matching Conditions of encoding and retrieval
Definition
Encoding Specificity
State Dependant Learning
Transfer Appropriate Processing
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Encoding Specificity
Definition
Information is learned in similar physical place to retrieval
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Divers study Encoding Specificity
Definition
1/2 learned under water, 1/2 learned above, people did better on test in area that they were tested
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State Dependant Learning (mood congruent learning)
Definition
Memory is best when internal state of encoding matches state of retrieval
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Transfer Appropriate Learning
Definition
Memory performance enhanced if type of encoding matches type of retrieval
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Transfer Appropriate Processing Morris Study
Definition
Either learned rhyming or not rhyming
If test given in rhymes rhyming people did better
Goes against deep processing model
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Memories represented by
Definition
Change in Synapse
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Hebb discovery about synapse
Definition
Activity causes structural changes at the synapse
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Long Term Potential
Definition
Long lasting increase in response after pre-synaptic neurons receive high frequency stimulation
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Hippocampus needed for
Definition
Declarative Memory
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