PSYCH 3VV3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Verbal Arithmetic
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Sensory memory short term memory long term memory: some memory will be selectively encoded and stored in stm. Cue gets selectively encoded: ex. in class when showed 3 rows of 4 letters, look at top instead of middle, we did not selectively attend to the middle row. Forgetting through short term memory occurs through decay. Makes strong claim that memory retrieval from stm to ltm is not cue driven!!! Focusing on stm and the constraints on stm. When people are trying to remember words, there is something that goes on: we encode the words in a storage system phonological store. Items decay from the storage system unless there is some sort of a control process: phonological store articulatory control process, long words more decay happening, short words less decay. Phonological similarity effect: principle at work is interference between similar items. Interference has a profound goal at remembering similar items. Good memory for items first and last in the study list.
