Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Spreading Activation, Eem, Clive Wearing
3 Dec 2015
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Information processing model o: stm vs. ltm, what is memory. Exam 75 questions last questions are session specific. Owl practice exam and answer key posted. Information held for fraction of a second o: trace fades quickly attend to the dot on the screen. Short-term memory (stm: working memory, material held by rehearsal, no rehearsal information lost forgetting. Visualizing it, repeating it in your mind etc. 7 + 2 items the special number is either 7 or 2. Chunking helps it isn"t single numbers it is mixed, becomes more. There are two major theories of forgetting . (1) decay material gets old and fades away over time, if you house it there and leave it there it will be gone unless you use it. (2) interference new material pushes the old material out. Participants come in and have to remember the words until they memorized.
