memory
This type of memory stores a large amount of information and experiences that have accumulated over your entire life.
long-term memory
Which type of memory stores experiences and information accumulated across your lifetime?
Long term memory
The serial position effect shows what type of relationship between list position and recall?
A U-shaped relationship
What is proactive interference?
Difficulty remembering new information because old information interferes.
The Atkinson–Shiffrin model proposes that memory is made up of a sequence of separate storage systems.
What are the three main stores?
Sensory memory, short-term (working) memory, and long-term memory.
This type of memory is brief, immediate, and holds the small amount of information you are currently processing.
working memory
Do you forget the things that you are learning if your memory is working?
Truth
Why are items at the end of a list remembered better?
Because they are still in short-term (working) memory at the time of recall.
When you keep studying lists from the same category (for example, occupations), and your recall gets worse over time, this is an example of:
Proactive interference
Which memory store briefly records information from the senses and lasts about two seconds or less?
Sensory memory.
these two memory systems may actually be basically the same.
working memory and long-term memory
What does working memory mean?
That is active
Better recall for items at the beginning of a list = __________ effect.
Primacy
In Wickens et al. (1976), why did recall improve when the list switched from occupations to fruit?
Because switching to a new semantic category caused a release from proactive interference.
Which memory store holds a small amount of information that is actively being used?
Short-term (working) memory.