semantics

Examples of semantics in the following topics:

• Detail on Types of Long-Term Memory

  • Explicit memory can be further sub-divided into semantic memory, which concerns facts, and episodic memory, which concerns primarily personal or autobiographical information.
  • Another type of semantic memory is called a script.
  • Through practice, you learn these scripts and encode them into semantic memory.
  • Semantic and episodic memory are closely related; memory for facts can be enhanced with episodic memories associated with the fact, and vice versa.
  • Likewise, semantic memories about certain topics, such as football, can contribute to more detailed episodic memories of a particular personal event, like watching a football match.

• Long-Term Memory

  • Semantic memory involves abstract factual knowledge, such as "Albany is the capital of New York."
  • You use semantic memory when you take a test. 
  • Another type of semantic memory is called a script.
  • Through practice, you learn these scripts and encode them into semantic memory.
  • Semantic and episodic memory are closely related; memory for facts can be enhanced with episodic memories associated with the fact, and vice versa.

• Levels of Processing

  • There are three levels of processing for verbal data: structural, phonetic, and semantic.
  • These levels progress from the most shallow (structural) to the deepest (semantic).
  • To return to the example of trying to remember the name of a restaurant: if the name of the restaurant has no semantic meaning to you (for instance, if it's a word in another language, like "Vermicelli"), you might still be able to remember the name if you have processed it phonetically and can think, "It started with a V sound and it rhymed with belly."
  • Semantic processing is when we apply meaning to words and compare/relate it to words with similar meanings.
  • One example of taking advantage of deeper semantic processing to improve retention is using the method of loci.

• Other Steps

  • There are four main types of encoding that can occur within the brain - visual, elaborative, acoustic and semantic.
  • Semantic encoding is the use of sensory input that has certain meaning or context to encode and create memories.
  • Some strategies used in semantic encoding include chunking and mnemonics.

• Introduction to Language

  • Semantics, most generally, is about the meaning of sentences.
  • Someone who studies semantics is interested in words and what real-world object or concept those words denote, or point to.
  • These include phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.

• Introduction to Memory Encoding

  • The four primary types of encoding are visual, acoustic, elaborative, and semantic.
  • Semantic encoding involves the use of sensory input that has a specific meaning or can be applied to a context.
  • Chunking and mnemonics (discussed below) aid in semantic encoding; sometimes, deep processing and optimal retrieval occurs.

• Introduction to Memory Storage

  • In contrast to short-term memory, long-term memory is the ability to hold semantic information for a prolonged period of time.
  • Another type of memory storage, the semantic matrix, is used to explain the semantic effect associated with memory recall.

• Unconscious Perception

  • One of the classic examples is word recognition, thanks to some of the earliest experiments on priming in the early 1970s: the work of David Meyer and Roger Schvaneveldt showed that people decided that a string of letters was a word when the letters followed an associatively or semantically related word.

• Strategies for Improving Memory Quality and Duration

  • Overlearning is a very powerful mnemonic for both procedural and semantic memories.

• Physical Development in Late Adulthood

  • Semantic memory is the memory of understanding things, of the meaning of things and events, and other concept-based knowledge.