Long-term memory Flashcards
Depth of processing theory
How deeply something is processed/encoded affect how traces memory
What are the two types of rehearsal?
- maintenance: simple, to keep in STM
- Elaborative: deeper- usually semantic processing. Only elaborative goes to LTM.
Give examples of the different levels in the depth of processing theory
- Shallow – does it start with a capital?
- Intermediate – does the word rhyme with “luck “
- Deep level: fit into a sentence.
At the end of a session deep was the best, then intermediate then shallow
9 what does the depth of processing approach suggest?
Things are stored semantically. Because when semantic remember meaning of word, remember actual word.
How does short-term memory store things?
PhonologicalLy
Support for semantic encoding in long-term memory
Had to learn words for LTM, then looked at word lost. Non-targets:
1. Completely dissimilar words.
2. Psychologically similar words.
3. Semantically similar words
Numbers two and three caused confusion because they were encoded that way
Two types of declarative memory
- Semantics ( facts)
- Episodic. (Events)
What is a part of semantics?
Facts, concepts, schema
Concept
Mental representation of categories of objects or items. I.e. concept of a tree. You have this concept, but it allows you to identify new never seen before trees. Also could be abstract concepts like freedom.
Schemas
Built on past experiences. Went into a room office left and asked what’s in the room “books “cause it helps us organize organized packet of information that helps us categorize information and the relations amongst them. It’s about the world, people and events.
Forest is a schema and organizes how different concepts related to each other like trees
Script
Schema for events
The expected behavior for a given situation
