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MSM Flashcards

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Stimulus from enviroment

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5 senses

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Sensory register

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High capacity
Iconic: visual
Echoic: sound

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STM

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Coded acoustically
Lasts 30 seconds
Limited capacity (7+-2)

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Maintenance rehearsal

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Repeat material, info goes STM > LTM over time

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LTM

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Potentially unlimited capacity
Potentially unlimited duration
Encoded semantically
LTM > STM (retrieval)

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Supporting evidence

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Controlled lab studies on capacity duration and coding support existence of MSM

Baddeley: prefrontal cortex active during STM, not LTM

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Case Studies- Strength

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Scoville + Milner: remove hippocampus from both sides of brain, could not form new LTMS
Could remember previous info

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