PSY270H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Synapse, Long-Term Potentiation, Memory Consolidation
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Learning objective: explain the serial position curve and what causes it. Primacy effect: better memory in the beginning; occurs because items are successfully transferred to the ltm. Recency effect: last 2-3 items you just heard; they are still active in the stm: define 2 types of interference. Retroactive interference: inhibitory effects of new information on old information. Proactive interference: inhibitory effects of old information on new information: describe release from pi and provide experimental evidence. Wi(cid:272)ke(cid:374)"s (cid:894)19(cid:1011)(cid:1010)(cid:895) de(cid:373)o(cid:374)strates that it is possi(cid:271)le to keep lear(cid:374)i(cid:374)g with i(cid:374)terfere(cid:374)(cid:272)e: he had people remember three fruits and had them to engage in a task that interfere rehearsal (count backwards by three) He then gave them three more fruits with delay. The memory drastically dropped after the second trial and dropped for the last three too. Old info is getting in the way of new information.
