PSY 305 TOP Study Guide Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers

Encoding Retrieval Interactions - Melton (1963) Encoding (How does the stuff get into the system, whats the best way to get stuff in the system) - Storage - Retrieval. What is encoded? - • What is the information that gets into the system? • Attributes/features (Bower, 1967; Underwood, 1969) • Encoding represents the process by which the attributes of memory are established • The binding together of different attributes into a representation - An episode Automatic and Controlled Encoding - • You remember things that you pay attention to • You automatically encode a great deal of information - What did you eat for lunch yesterday? • You also can focus attention in on a subset of information for better encoding (controlled) - Studying