(6) 2.4b Encoding Memories

Prospective Memory

• Things you need to remember to do

Hierarchy

• Putting info into categories and subcategories

Massed Practice

• Cramming the night before

Spaced Effect (distributed practice)

• Spaced out study or practice for better long-term retention

Testing Effect (Retrieval Practice)

• Testing effect enhances memory

Self-reference effect

• Apply a situation to yourself → more likely to remember it

Elaborative Rehearsal

• Making connections between new information and what you already know

  • Helps store in long term

Levels of Processing

• Shallow processing

  • Structural (based on look)

  • Phonetic (based on sound)

• Deep Processing

  • Encoding semantically

Semantic Encoding - Remembering something by its meaning