Automatic Processing: A Process Of Rehearsal

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Henry is going to be able to get a five on his AP exam if he correctly encodes all of the information needed. There is automatic processing and effortful processing. Automatic processing occurs without a conscious effort.This is done with things like space, time and frequency. This process is not the one that Henry is going to use in order to get a five. Henry will be using effortful processing. This type of processing is done with a conscious effort. It is done through many techniques. One of the techniques is rehearsal. Rehearsal is when a person repeats information over and over again in order to remember it. This can be very useful for Henry when he is trying to remember the names of famous of psychologists or vocabulary words. To maximize …show more content…

Retrieval is when the brain has to recall and recognize the information. To recall the information is to be able to retrieve the information previously learned. This is what is used when a person is taking a fill-in-the-blank test. To recognize the information is to be able to identify the right information. This is used during a multiple choice test. Retrieval may seem easy, but there can be some problems during it. A person could have forgotten the information, when could be due to absent-mindedness, which is not paying attention to the details, transience, which is when the memory fades over time, or blocking, which is not being able to access the stored information. Another issue is distortion. Types of distortion are misattribution, which is confusing where the information came from, suggestibility, which is the lingering effects of misinformation, and bias, which is believing something based on their beliefs rather than the truth. Retrieval failures include proactive and retroactive interference. Proactive is when something you have already learned effects being able to learn something new. Retroactive is when new information makes it harder to remember something previously

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