AP Psychology / Unit 2: Cognition
2.4 Encoding Memories
Notes
- Levels of processing: deep (meaning) beats shallow (appearance).
- Mnemonics, chunking, the method of loci.
- Effortful vs automatic processing.
Practice
Thinking about what a word means rather than its font is:
Meaning improves memory.
Remembering 1-800-FLOWERS instead of 10 digits is:
Grouping items.
Imagining items placed along a familiar route is the:
Location-based mnemonic.
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