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Question 1

Serial position effect:
Primacy effect
Recency effect

Answer 1

Superior recall to:

1. items first on the list
   => more time to remember the first few words, rehearsal to store in LTM
2. last few words of the list
   => remains in working memory during time of recall
   => this effect disappears if recall is delayed by 30 seconds

Question 2

LTM: declarative vs nondeclarative memory

Answer 2

declarative / explicit: consciously retrieved memory that is easy to verbalize

non declarative / implicit: unconscious, difficult to verbalize

Question 3

LTM
Declarative memory

Semantic memory

Answer 3

general knowledge; meanings and facts

organized by categories

=> provide as an objective understanding of the world

Question 4

LTM
Declarative memory

Episodic memory

Answer 4

more personal account of past experiences

organized as a timeline, hence time is often a cue

originates from others, or from a repeated experience

=> provides a reference point for our subjective experience of the self

Question 5

Autobiographical memories

Answer 5

• blending of semantic and episodic memories

Question 6

LTM
Nondeclarative memory

Procedural memory

Answer 6

• how we carry out motor skills and procedures
• as procedures become automatic, we can direct our limited capacities for divided attention to other aspects of the task
  (performing a task isn’t the same as talking about it)

Question 7

LTM
Nondeclarative memory

Priming

Answer 7

• change in our response to a stimulus due to pre-exposure to related stimuli