Cognitive part 2

Cognitive part 2

1. rehearsal

   • maintenance
     • repeating info again and again; not as effective
   • elaborative
     • actively trying to tie new info into info already stored in LTM; more effective

2. method of loci

   • if you have a list to remember, picture a familiar place and walk through the location with the items

3. network model (LTM)

   • series of interconnected dots
   • spreading activation
     • once one node is activated, it increases the probability that connected nodes will also
   • encoding specificity
     • more likely to remember something in the same circumstance
     • context dependent
       • refers to the same physical space
     • state-dependent
       • refers to the same physical or psychological state of mind
     • spreading activation accounts for this

4. decay hypothesis

   • info simply fades with time- FALSE

5. disuse hypothesis

   • info will decay with time if you don't use it

6. retrieval failure

   • info stays in LTM but you forget due to retrieval failure
   • evident by spontaneous recovery
   • due to interference
     • proactive
       • old interfering with new
     • retroactive
       • new interfering with old

7. long term memory

   • explicit
     • you can verbalize
     • episodic
       • particular episodes
     • semantic
       • meaning of things
   • implicit
     • you can't verbalize
       • ex: motor skills
   • info is encoded into LTM semantically