INTERFERENCE & SEMANTICS
Difficulty remembering new information because old information interferes.
What is proactive interference?
The model proposing separate sensory, short-term, and long-term memory systems.
What is the Atkinson-Shiffrin model?
The component responsible for processing visual and spatial information.
What is the visuospatial sketchpad?
Improved recall that occurs when the category of items changes.
What is release from proactive interference?
The memory store that holds information for about 30 seconds without rehearsal.
What is short-term (working) memory?
The system that processes spoken and silently rehearsed sounds.
What is the phonological loop?
The concept that memory is influenced by the meaning of words.
What is semantics?
The storage system with large capacity and relatively permanent information.
What is long-term memory?
The component that coordinates attention and task-switching.
What is the central executive?
Wickens et al. (1976) showed improved recall when participants switched from occupations to this category.
What is fruit?
Intentional strategies such as rehearsal used to improve memory.
What are control processes?
The system that integrates information from multiple sources into a single episode.
What is the episodic buffer?
Why recall improves when new items share fewer semantic features with previous ones.
What is reduced semantic interference?
A key criticism of the Atkinson-Shiffrin model discussed in Chapter 4.
What is that it did not explain active mental processing?
The working memory approach proposed by Baddeley and Hitch.
What is the multi-component working memory model?