Memory Flashcards
Coding stm
Baddley acoustically similar words
Acoustic
Coding ltm
Baddley semantically similar words tested after 20 mins
55% semantically similar
85% semantically dissimilar
Capacity SR
3/4 all stimuli
Capacity STM
Jacobs- digit span test researcher had sequence 4 digits and ppts had to repeat sequence in correct order then additional digit added
Digits 9.3
Letters 7.3
Capacity STM
Miller magic number plus or minus 2 everyday items come in 7s
Can be increased by chunking splitting info into larger meaningful units
Capacity LTM
Wagnaar conducted research on himself created diary of 2400 events over 6 years and tested himself on recall of them- excellent recall
Unlimited
Duration SR
500 milliseconds
Duration STM
Peterson and peterson
Trigrams
Asked ppts to remember three letters but then gave them interference task
Tested recall after 3,9,12,15,18 secs
Approx 18-30 secs
Duration ltm
Bahrick
Tested 392 graduates On face and name recognition of people in class
After 15 years 90% with photo recognition
After 48years 70% with photo recognition
15 years no photo 60%
48 years 30%
Can last a lifetime
Who came up with msm
Attkinson and shiffrin 1971
Case study support msm
Hm had good ltm before accident but couldn’t create new memories because couldn’t transfer between stores
Support msm
Primary recency effect glanzer and cunitz
Shown list words and asked to recall in any order remember first last best
Supporting evidence different types ltm
HM and clive wearing episodic both very damaged but procedural functional eg clive wearing could still play piano
Biological support types ltm
Neuroimaging by tulving pet scans during memory tasks
Episodic and semantic from prefrontal cortex
Left semantic
Right episodic
Practical application types ltm
Belleville et al demonstrated episodic could be improved in older people who had mild cognitive impairment performed better in episodic memory test