ERGO M6 - M11 FINALS Flashcards
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Is the system that is responsible for storing information for long periods of time.
LONG-TERM MEMORY
LONG TERM MEMORY is described as the “________” of information about past events and knowledge learned.
Archive
t and f
short term memory works closely with working memory.
false
Long term memory
Long-term memory covers a span that
stretches from about ________ seconds ago to
your earliest memories.
30
Beginning in the _____s, a great deal of research was conducted that was designed to
distinguish between short-term and long-term processes
1960s
A classic experiment by _______ (person) (1962) studied the distinction between STM and LTM by measuring a function called the __________.
– B.B. Murdoch, Jr
– serial position curve.
_____ is created by presenting a list of words to a participant, one after another. [Read stimulus list, write down all words remembered.]
Serial Position Curve
The finding that participants are more likely to remember words presented at the beginning
of a sequence is called the ____.
primacy effect.
True or False
Serial position curve (Murdoch, 1962).
Notice that memory is better for words
presented at the beginning of the list
(primacy effect) than at the end
(recency effect).
False
Change “Than” to “and”. Both sila have better memory
What experiment ?
Participant begins recall
immediately after
hearing the list of words.
Serial position curve
(Murdoch, 1962)
Primacy effect and
recency effect.
What experiment ?
List is presented and
participant repeats
words out loud in 5-
second intervals
between words.
Rundus’s (1971)
experiment
More info:
Words at the beginning
of the list are repeated
more, so they are more
likely to get into LTM.
What experiment ?
Participant begins recall
after counting
backwards for 30
seconds.
Glanzer and Cunitz’s
(1966) experiment
Recency effect is
eliminated because
rehearsal is prevented.
______ refers to the form in which stimuli are represented.
Coding
What are the three Physiological Approaches in Coding?
Visual Coding
Auditory Coding
Semantic Coding
A type of Physiological Approaches in Coding
- Remembered the pattern by representing it visually in your mind
▪ when you visualize a person or place from the past.
Visual Coding
A type of Physiological Approaches in Coding
▪ people often misidentify target letters as another letter that sounds like the target
▪ occurs in LTM when you “play” a song in your head
Auditory Coding
▪ Wickens and coworkers (1976)
▪ Interference enhanced by meanings of words
Semantic Coding
_______ the DECREASE in memory that occurs when previously learned information interferes with learning new
information — by presenting words from the same category on a series of trials
proactive interference
____ is the identification of a previously encountered stimulus
Recognition Memory
What experiment?
Participants remember wording versus meaning
Sachs (1967) experiment:
Determine whether this is STM OR LTM
Holding an image in the mind to
reproduce a visual pattern that
was just seen (Della Sala, et al.,
1999)
STM
Determine whether this is STM OR LTM
Visualizing what the Lincoln
Memorial in Washington D.C.,
looked when you saw it last
summer
LTM
Determine whether this is STM OR LTM
Representing the sounds of
letters in the mind just after
hearing them (Conrad, 1964)
STM
Determine whether this is STM OR LTM
Repeating a song you have heard
many times before, over and over
in your mind.
LTM