Chapter 5: Short Term Working Memory Flashcards
Learning about Chapter 5 (28 cards)
Articulary Loop
The part of the phonological loop involved in the active refreshing of info in the phonological store.
i.e: your inner voice, when you mentally say things to yourself
Recoding
Process of grouping items together then remembering the newly formed groups
Decay
Forgetring (might be) caused simply by the passage of time before testing
Brown-Peterson Task
Come back to pg 140
Waugh and Norman (1965)
Come back to page 140
Proactive Interference (PI)
When older materials interferes forward in time with your recollection of the current stimulus.
(Loss of info in the Brown-Peterson Task is an example of this)
Retroactive Interference (RI)
In which newer material interferes backward in time with your recollection of older items
Release from PI
Occurs when the decline in performance caused by PI is reversed due to a switch in the to-be-remembered stimuli
1) Serial Position Curve
2) Serial position
1) Graph of item-by-item accuracy on a recall task
2) Refers to original position an item had in a study list
Free Recall vs Serial Recall
Free Recall: recalling a list in any order
Serial Recall: recalling a list in the order it was presented
Primacy vs Recency Effects
Primacy: when you remember things at the beginning of a list because you have time to rehearse them
Recency: remembering things at the end of a list
The Sternberg Task
Look on page 147-149
Process Model
Sternberg proposed this;
It is a flowchart of the four separate mental processes that occurred during the timed portion of every trial
Pg 149
Serial Self-Terminating Search
Scanning things one by one until the needed thing is found
Serial Exhaustive Search
Memory scans one item at a time (serial) and everything is scanned whether it matches or not (exhaustive).
Very dumb. Once you find it stop looking bro
Episodic Buffer
Pg 153
Cental Executive
The heart of working memory
Is in charge of planning future actions, starting retrieval and decision processes, and to integrate info coming into the system.
Phonological Loop
The speech and sound related component responsible for rehearsal of verbal info and processing sounds.
Phonological Store
A passive component of the phonological loop
Things in here are forgotten unless rehearsed/refreshed.
It’s where the articulary loop comes in.
Articulatory Suppression Effect
Is the finding that people poorer memory for a set of words if they are asked to say something while trying to remember the words.
Phonological Similarity Effect
Is the finding that memory is poorer when people have to remember a set of words that are phonologically similar, compared to a set that is not.
Visuo-Spatial Sketch Pad
A system for visual and spatial info.
i.e. the picture you make in your head when you process something
Mental Rotation
Mentally rotating objects in your head
Boundary Extension
In which people tend to misremember more of a scene that was actually viewed, as if the boundaries of an image were extended further out.
Pg 159
