wk 7

Question 1

what did william james (1890) say primary memory was

Answer 1

info that remains in consciousness after it has been percieved, forms part of psychological present

Question 1

what did william james (1890) say secondary memory was

Answer 1

info about events that have left consciousness, part of psychological past

Question 2

who was Hermann Ebbinghaus (1885/1913), what did he do

Answer 2

Performed hundreds of memory tests on himself

Question 3

Iconic store

Answer 3

= visual store
- Duration: 500 msec
- Capacity: 12+ letters (depends on stimuli)
- Loss via: Decay

Question 4

Echoic store

Answer 4

=auditory store
Duration: 1-5 sec
Capacity= (depends on stimuli)
Loss via: Decay

Question 5

Sperling’s partial report technique used matixes of letters to show

Answer 5

that the visual sensory store has a higher capacity than it might seem, but that its duration is very brief, and hence it fades quickly whilst you try to report what you say

Question 6

Brown-Peterson paradigm

Answer 6

a sub-span number of items (i.e., fewer than Miller’s 7+/-2) decays rapidly from the short-term store if you’re not allowed to rehearse them (because you’re given a secondary task of counting backwards by 3s)

Question 7

Conrad’s phonological confusability effect

Answer 7

showing that STS is coded phonologically, as for Visually presented letters: Recall performance worse on
similar sounding letters

Question 8

Baddeley’s semantic confusability effect

Answer 8

Immediate recall worse if words phonologically similar
* “Map Man Can Mad Cap” < “Pen Rig Day Bar Sup”
– No effect of semantic similarity (in immediate recall)
* “Great Big Huge Wide” = “Run Easy Tug End”

Question 9

HM with anterograde amnesia and profound impairment in ….

Answer 9

in creating new long-term memories (but intact STS, normal digit span, normal recency)

Question 10

patient KF who had an impaired _____ :. abnormally low …

Answer 10

STS

digit span – but intact ability to create new long-term memories.