Temporal context and models of memory search

Question 1

List length effect

Answer 1

lengthening the list affects recall for terms earlier in the list, the longer you make a list, the number of terms you remember increases, but the proportion you recall decreases

Question 2

Recency effect

Answer 2

For the last few terms, the likelihood of recalling wasn’t associated with the list length or presentation rate of items, while the primacy and middle were greatly affected by length and rate.
Hippocampal/medial temporal damage disassociated from recency effect.

Question 3

Distractions lead to forgetting of most recent memories

Answer 3

This is because distractions removed the recency memories from short-term store

Question 4

Auditory vs visual mode of retaining information

Answer 4

auditory led to better retaining recently, inversely visual was better for earlier on.

Question 5

Primacy and Rehearsal - Why are first terms rehearsed so many times?

Answer 5

You spend more time thinking about first terms
They are recalled more often
You’ve distributed your time thinking about them in a more spaced out way

Question 6

Novel pieces of info more likely to be remembered?

Answer 6

When something new comes up dopamine sent out from STN, which is why novel stimuli/information are more likely to be recalled

Question 7

Associative Chaining Theory

Answer 7

forming a chain of associations among contiguously presented items,

earner associates each list item and its neighbors,
storing stronger forward- than backward-going associations

Question 8

Positional Coding

Answer 8

Forming associations between items and their relative positions

Question 9

What are three types of free recall experiments?

Answer 9

Immediate, delayed and continual distractor free recall