memory Flashcards
miller method
capacity of the STM
digital span technique
method: list series of numbers - end of the list you write down digits in order straight away
numbers of digits increased with each list
calculated average
miller results
capacity STM able to recall 7.3 letters and 9.3 numbers
7+/- 2 chunks of information
jacobs
support similar research
female students able to recall 7.3 letters and 9.3 numbers
Procedural memory
Long type memory Memory on how to do something (riding a bike) repetition become automatic
Declarative memory
Semantic memory
Episodic memory
Effect on misleading information on EWT
Lotus and palmer
Cues
Serve as a trigger to memory, may be things about the memory like a category a word belongs to or room learnt in
Semantic memory
Long term
Knowledge of facts like capital cities recalled deliberately
Episodic memory
Long term
Knowledge of life events time stamped such as first day of school
Retrieved with effort
Eyewitness testimony
Ability for a person to remember an event they have witnessed usually in testifying in court or identifying a criminal
+ Overton study
State dependent forgetting, had to learn word list either drunk or sober the recall of words was best when they were drunk during both encoding and recall or sober both encoding and recall