Lecture 8 - Memory 2

Question 1

Discuss encoding in long term memory?

Answer 1

The deeper the level of processing the better material will be remembered

Question 2

Name 2 types of rehearsal?

Answer 2

Maintenance rehearsal and Elaborative rehearsals

Question 3

What is maintenance rehearsal?

Answer 3

Repeating the item over and over

Question 4

What is Elaborative rehearsal?

Answer 4

Encodes the information in more meaningful ways e.g. making associations

Question 5

What are the effects from levels of processing?

Answer 5

The more an item is elaborated at the time of storage, the richer the later memory will be because more connections can serve as retrieval cues

Question 6

What are schemas?

Answer 6

Cognitive structures that help us perceive, organise, process, and use information

Question 7

What do decisions on how to chunk information depend on?

Answer 7

Schemas - culture shapes our schemas and can lead to biased encoding + schemas influence how we encode info in our daily lives