Memory I: Multi-Store Models Flashcards
1
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William James
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primary (conscious) vs. secondary (LTM) memory
2
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Hermann Ebbinghaus
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- self-experiments with consonant-vowel-consonant syllables
- “savings”: shorter time required to relearn concepts
- learning/forgetting curves
- STM capacity of 7 items
3
Q
serial position curve
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primacy and recency effects shown when asked to recall information in any order (recency is stronger)
4
Q
modal model of memory (Atkinson-Shiffrin)
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- input -> STM -> LTM
5
Q
phonological confusability effect
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- exclusive to STM
- similar/rhyming letter sequences impair coding of information
6
Q
semantic confusability effect
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- exclusive to LTM
- similar meaning -> impaired retrieval
7
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Henry Molaison
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- medial temporal lobes removed for epilepsy
- Brenda Milner found he had anterograde amnesia
