| Chapter 6: Episodic Memory We use to think rehearsal was the key to store information in LTM Maintenance rehearsal: low-level processing of the information Elaborative rehearsal: make the information personally meaningful Depth of processing: the more meaningful the processing, the better the memory Hiearchy of processing: Structural features Phonemic features Semantic features Circularity of the argument: what leads to better memory is deeper processing, and vice versa Encoding specificity: the more conditions at retrieval match conditions at encoding, the better the memory Context-dependent memory State-dependent memory Mood-dependent memory Transfer-appropriate processing: the more overlap between processes used at retrieval and encoding, the better the memory |
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