Models of memory: session 7

Question 1

What is encoding?

Answer 1

Information goes in and is then changed to a language or code the brain understands

Question 2

What is storage?

Answer 2

Holding the information in a place until it is required

Question 3

What is retrieval?

Answer 3

Get information out from storage to use it

Question 4

What was Glanzer & Cunitz experiment?

Answer 4

• participants hear list of words
• asked to recall them in any order
  
  • condition 1: immediate recall
  • condition 2: recall after interference task

Question 5

What were Glanzer’s & Cuntiz’s results ?

Answer 5

• PPs recalled more words at beginning (primacy) and end (recency) of list
• interference task removed recency but not primary
  
  • implies primacy words are stored elsewhere
  • proved we have 2 separate memory stores; short term & long term

Question 6

How do STM and LTM differ?

Answer 6

• function
• capacity
• duration
• encoding
• forgetting

Question 7

What was Conrad’s experiment?

Answer 7

• encoding
• suggested STM code all information acoustically
  1) participants presented with list of consonants
  2) pps asked to recall what they’d seen
• errors of recall were with letters which sounded similar e.g Bs mistaken for Ps 62 times
• suggesting visual presentation is encoded according to acoustic sounds

Question 8

How many types of encoding are there?

Answer 8

• visual
• acoustic
• semantic (through its meaning)