chapter 7 Flashcards
What is maintenance rehearsal?
What is it effective at?
What is it not effective at?
It’s repeating info over and over again
It can maintain info in working memory
it can’t encode info in the long term memory
What is elaborative rehearsal
It is when we process the meaning of info
make connections between info
encode the info into long term memory
What is the level of depth of processing?
It helps us determine how strong the long term memory is?
What is the range of depth processing?
It ranges from shallow to deep
What is shallow processing?
It’s when we pay little attention to the meaning
focus more on physical and sensory features
poor memory
What is deep processing?
It is when we play close attention to the meaninf
we relate info to info we already know
good memory
What is the self reference effect?
It is when people are better at remembering info when it relates to them
What does forming visual images?
forming visual images that include the items needed to be known improves memory
ex. picture a boat in a tree
What is the generation effect?
it is generating info yourself instead of recieving the info yourself
What is organizing information?
Info is better remembered when it’s organized, especially when using pre-existing info a s a retrieval cue
What is the testing effect?
It is successfuly remembering info yourself is better than passively studyinh
What is retrieval?
It is the process of transferring info from ltm back to working memory
it makes info accessible
What is cued recall?
It’s an experimental technique that shows cues at retrieval timw to help recall
What is context?
it is when retrieval is most effective when conditions at retrieval match the conditions at encoding
What is encoding specificity?
we learn info best when we’re in the environment we learned it in
