Memory II: Process Models

Question 1

Issues with the modal model (multi-store)

Answer 1

• implies STM is always the gateway to LTM storage, disputed by case study of Henry Molaison (anterograde amnesia)

Question 2

Eriksen & Collins: dot-pattern fusions

Answer 2

• overlayed 2 dot patterns by flashing between them
• testing maximum time apart when you can still visualize the combined image
• Di Lollo argued that the overlap is based on visual processing, not memory

Question 3

Coltheart’s 3 separate phenomena of stimulus persistence

Answer 3

• neural
• visible
• informational

Question 4

Alan Baddeley: working memory

Answer 4

• dual task paradigms
• visuospatial sketch pad + phonological store: can work simultaneously because they’re engaging different systems
• central executive: selective attention

Question 5

Brooks matrix task

Answer 5

• presented a matrix of sentences to remember
• much easier to recall with spatial info incorporated AUDITORILY

Question 6

articulatory suppression

Answer 6

• repetition of irrelevant verbal info disturbs ability to recall information