Chapter 6 - Long-Term Memory

Question 1

Division

Answer 1

• distinguishing between different types of memory (ex. STM and LTM)

Question 2

Interaction

Answer 2

• refers to the fact that different types of memory can interact and share mechanisms

Question 3

Serial Position Curve

Answer 3

• studies the distinction between STM and LTM
• presenting a list of words to a participant and asking them to write down all the words they remember after the last one was shown, in any order
• indicates memory is better for words at the beginning and end of list and not so much for words in the middle

Question 4

Serial position curve

Primacy effect

Answer 4

• finding that participants are more likely to remember words presented at the beginning of the word sequence
• participants had time to rehearse at the beginning

Question 5

Serial position curve

Recency effect

Answer 5

• better memory for the stimuli presented at the end of a sequence
• those words are still in STM

Question 6

Coding

Answer 6

• the form in which stimuli are represented

Question 7

Mental approach to coding

Answer 7

• investigating how a stimulus or experience is represented in the mind

Question 8

Visual coding

Answer 8

• coding in the mind in the form of a visual image
• ex. remembering faces

Question 9

Auditory coding

Answer 9

• coding in the mind in the form of a sound
• ex. listening to music in your head

Question 10

Semantic coding

Answer 10

• ## coding in the mind in terms of meaning

Question 11

semantic coding in STM

Proactive interference

Answer 11

• the decrease in memory that occurs when previously learned information interferes with learning new information

Question 12

Release from proactive interference

Question 13

Recognition memory

Answer 13

• identification of a stimulus that was encountered earlier