Final Exam Flashcards
Information Processing Model
brain like a computer
Modal Model of Memory
Atkinson and Shiffrin
Everything collected in sensory store then to working memory and long term memory
George Sperling experiment
tone matched with letters could recite all four in a row compared to just 4 out of any of them= Sensory memory is infinite but very short (half a second)
Movement of Sensory to Short-term memory
attention
Attention
mental capacity to focus on one thing over everything else
filter for directing cognitive resources
Chuncking
Social and Phone numbers
Serial Position Curve
Graph showing recency effect and primacy effect
Recency Effect
tendency to recall the last items in a list of words in a free recall task
Primacy effect
tendency to recall beginning of a list better than middle
Encoding
process of getting info into memory
Visual Imagery Encoding
associate a picture with that info
Organizational Encoding
groups info together out of a list
Levels of Processing Theory
the more elaborately you encode more likely you are to remember
Retrieval
taking memory out of memory and using it
Encoding specificity
when you’re in the same state you were in when you learned that piece of info
Context Dependent Memory
external cue that helps memory
State Dependent Memory
internal cues (drunk recall)
Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve
Nonsense words remembered and forgotten until around 25% retained
Interference
memories for new and old information conflict with one another
Memory Misattribution
assign an idea or a piece of memory to the wrong source
Suggestibility
tendency to incorporate misleading information into existing memories
