Darkthorn’s Blog

- Long term memory – Tulving

o Procedural – skills, unconscious, automatic

o Semantic – factual knowledge, impersonal

o Episodic – autobiographical, time and place

- Encoding processes

o Repetition

o Rehearsal – maintenance vs elaborative rehearsal

o Elaboration – engaging in processes that enhance understanding

o Organisation – structuring and restructuring of information as it is stored

o Imagery – mentally picturing a stimulus to form a memory – verbal vs imaginal code

- Retrieval processes

o Determine what is actually remembered about an event

o Encoding specificity principle – whatever is stored is determined by what is perceived and how it is encoded (state/context dependant learning)

o Cued recall is greater than free recall

- Sematic Network Accounts

o Knowledge organised in a network on interconnected nodes

§ Node – concept or idea

§ Linked nodes show a semantic relationship

§ Spreading activation

Forgetting

- A decrease in ability to remember a previously formed memory

- Assumptions – effective prior encoding – issue is retrieval of information

- Complications – the reconstructive nature of memory