Memory 4

Question 1

Serial reaction time task

Answer 1

Participants have to press a button when one of the lights turns on.
It is found that subjects are faster with structured sequences than when they are random. This implies that the participants are learning implicitly.

Question 2

Science behind choking under pressure

Answer 2

In high stress situations, experts shift to conscious processing rather than unconscious. This conflicts with highly automatized skills.

Novices should focus on accuracy and experts on speed.

Question 3

Dual task procedural memory experiment

Answer 3

When putting, dual task interferes with novices but not with experts. Experts seem to get better when doing a dual task

Question 4

Mirror tracking task

Answer 4

Participants have to draw while looking in the mirror.
Alzheimers patients’ procedural learing is largely intact compared to control subjects

Question 5

Picture fragment identification task

Answer 5

Task where a picture is show that only has some lines and eventually keeps adding lines until it becomes an object.
If you have seen it before you recognize the object very quickly.

Question 6

Implicit learning under anesthesia

Answer 6

After surgery the next day patients can often say things that were said to them during surgery despite no explicit memory.

Question 7

Retention in explicit and implicit memory word fragment completion task

Answer 7

After 1 hour retention interval the recognition is better than the fragment completion but after a week fragment completion stays the same and recognition drops

Question 8

Differences betwen implicit learning and memory

Answer 8

Implicit memory may be intentional or accidental and learnig may have been explicit or implicit.

Implicit learning is unconscious and affects behaviour but no realization of this