Types of Memory
Memories that have personal/emotional value
What is Episodic Memory
This effect states that we remember more if the information relates to us.
What is Self Reference Effect?
This approach focuses on how information is recalled more accurately when it processed deeply and meaningfully rather than on sensory features.
What is Levels-of-Processing Approach (AKA Depth-of-Processing Approach)?
The process of taking in and representing information in memory.
What is encoding?
This type of memory is a large capacity system that holds your experiences, memories, and information you have gained.
What is Long Term Memory
This process involves organizing and expanding on information
Elaboration
This approach suggests that we garner knowledge by integrating it with what we already know.
What is Constructivist Approach to Memory?
The effectiveness of memory retrieval often depends on how well encoding and storage match this:___.
What is context?
This type of memory includes general knowledge about the world, including facts
What is Semantic Memory?
In this 1999 study, Foley et al. found that participants had the highest recall when they used this ( even if it wasn’t part of the instructions.)
What is using Self-Reference?
Thinking deeply about a word's meaning (elaboration) is connected to this approach.
What is the Levels-of-Processing Approach?
Memory that that holds knowledge about how to do something, often motor based information (like how to ride a bike)
What is Procedural Memory?
The researchers in 1977 that conducted an early study where participants processed words based on visual, acoustic, semantic, and self-reference characteristics.
Who is Rogers et al.?
Consistency bias (our current beliefs and schemas shape how we interpret and recall past events) is an example of this approach.
What is the Constructivist Approach?
The type of memory being exercised when driving.
What is Procedural Memory?
The statistical method used by Symons & Johnson in 1997. It confirmed that the self-reference effect is a strong and reliable.
What is meta-analysis