Chapter 5: Short Term Working Memory Flashcards
Learning about Chapter 5
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
