Chapter 2 - Short-term Memory Flashcards
What term when appies to a range of complex memory span tasks in which simultaneous storage and processing is required?
Working Memory Span
What is the maximum number of sequentially presented digits that can reliably be recalled in the correct order referred to as?
Digit Span
What process of combining a number of items into a single chunk typically on the basis of long-term memory?
Chunking
Which short-term memory forgetting task where a small amount of material is tested after a brief delay filled by a rehersal-preventing task?
The Peterson Task
What method whereby participants are presented with a sequence of items, which they are subsequently required to recall in any order they wish?
Free Recall
What tendency for the first few items in a squene to be better recalled than most of the following items?
Primacy
What tendency for the last few items in a list to be well recalled?
Recency
What tendency for the last few items to be well recalled under conditions of long-term memory?
Long-Term Memory
What term when applied by Baddeley and Hitch to the component of their model responsible for the temporary storage of speech like information?
Phonological Loop
What tendency for immediate serial recall of verbal material to be reduced, when the items are similar in sound?
Phonological Similarity Effect
What technique for disrupting verbal rehearsal by requiring participants to continuously repeat a spoken item?
Articulatory Suppression
What tendency for verbal memory span to decrease when longer words are used?
Word Length Effect
What pronounceable but meaningless consonant-vowel-consonant items designed to study learning without the complicated factor of meaning?
Nonsense syllables
WHat tendency for verbal STM to be disrupted by concurrent fluctuating sounds, including both speech and music?
Irrelevant Sound Effect
What term particularly used in enuropsychology when two patient groups show opposite patterns of deficit.
Double-Dissociation
