Long term memory
How long does LTM last?
Indefinitely
Used himself to test how often he needed to rehearse information to remember it
Ebbinghaus
The memory that contains our moment-to-moment conscious thoughts and perceptions
Short term memory
What are the two types of interference?
Retroactive and Proactive
What is the primacy and recency effect?
Primacy effect- remembering things that occurred first in a list
Recency effect- remembering things that occurred last in a list
What two components make up long-term memory?
Declarative and non-declarative (Explicit/implicit)
George Miller introduced the idea of the
Magic number 7
The set of mechanisms that underlies STM and communicates with LTM
Working memory
Forgetting things that happened BEFORE the accident
Retrograde amnesia
What three parts make up the Atkinson-Shifrin Model?
Sensory memory, short-term memory, long-term memory
Remembering something that happened to you
Episodic memory
What task involved counting down from a large number after seeing 3 letters to determine how long STM lasted without rehearsal?
Brown-Peterson task
____ is grouping things together to make them easier to remember
Chunking/grouping
Forgetting everything that happens POST accident (Think patient HM)
Anterograde amnesia
What part of the memory process is influenced by the passage of time, emotions, and stress
Consolidation
Remembering how to do something
Procedural memory
What is a requirement of a chunk in order for it to work?
Needs to fit together readily as a pattern distinct from the things around it, be familiar to the person, and available in the LTM
Two scientists that looked at the capacity of STM
Ebbinghaus and George Miller
What kind of interference is when something you JUST learned interrupts your ability to recall something OLD
Retroactive interference
What is the phenomenon where people are unable to visualize imagery in their heads?
Aphantasia
Knowledge of facts, language, and the world
Semantic memory
How long does unrehearsed information last according to the Brown-Peterson task?
18 seconds
What are the three categories of working memory?
Phonological loop, visuospatial sketchpad, and episodic buffer
What kind of interference is when something you ALREADY know interrupts your ability to recall something NEW
Proactive interference
What part of working memory does not store information and plans/coordinates cognitive activities?
Central Executive