Lecture 10.2/10,3 Flashcards
What is the Brown Peterson Task?
Tested whether if information that was not rehearsed was only available for short time
Had to memorize 3 consonants then count backwards from 100 in 3’s
What is retroactive interference?
RECENTLY encoded information that interferes with retrieval of previously encoded information
What is proactive interference?
PREVIOUSLY encoded info that interferes with retrieval of more recently encoded info
Who is George Miller?
He concluded that STM capacity was 7+- 2 units and that chunking info together aided in learning more material
What is the primacy effect?
That items in a list where better remembered at the start, where memory coulor be transferred to LTM
What is the regency effect?
Remembering items at the end of a list, items are sensory and STM
What is working memory?
Limited capacity store
Retaining info over a period of seconds to minutes
Information can be acted on and processed not merely maintaned
Part of STM
Immediate conscious perception
What is the Tripartite Model?
Model of how working memory is consolidated
Describe the main categories ofTripartite Model
Central executive to Phonological loop and Visuospatial Sketchpad, The episodic buffer was also added
What is the Phonological Loop and where is it in the brain?
For language acquisition and comprehension through sound and verbal codes
Left hemisphere, parietal lobe
What is the word length effect?
Monosyllabic words are remembered more than polysyllabic
What is the phonological similarity effect?
Letters/words with the same sound are harder to remember
What is the unattended speech effect?
Where verbal memory is impaired by other irrelevant auditory material
What is articulatory suppression?
The repetition of an irrelevant sound during encoding
What is the visuo-spatial sketchpad and where is it in the brain?
Visual representations
Right parieto-occipital lobe
