Memory Systems Flashcards
What is short-term memory?
Transient and temporary information store before moving into long-term memory
What’s Miller’s magic number 7+/-2?
Amount of information that can be held in working memory
What is chunking?
Grouping information into meaningful units
Baddeley’s working memory model
Central executive controls slave systems phonological loop and visuospatial sketchpad for maintaining information
Evidence for phonological loop
remember more words if monosyllabic, and less when more syllables (repeat words to self)
What two are spared in amnesia?
Skill learning
Priming effects
Explicit memory is _____________ memory. It is _________ in amnesia and ___________ on MTL binding
Conscious; knowing that; declarative
Impaired
Depends
Implicit memory is _____________ memory. It is _________ in amnesia and ___________ on MTL binding
Unconscious; knowing how; procedural
Spared
Does not depend
Semantic Memory
Facts, general knowledge
Episodic Memory
One’s own experience
Anterograde amnesia
Condition that prevents him from forming new memories
Hippocampus
Part of medial temporal lobe
Responsible for forming new memories
Evidence: case study with HM
Partial-report procedure
Participants cued to report only a portion of the entire display