PSYC 334 Study Guide - Final Guide: Sketchpad, Sensory Memory

• School: Chico State University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 334
• Professor: Martinusvanden Berg

Document Summary

Short-term memory is a temporary storage for what is currently in your mind. We can rehearse 7+/- 2 items in our short-term memory. Recoding/chunking is when you group items together into groups. Decay is when you forget memory over time. Proactive interference: when you remember older materials and do not remember new materials. Retroactive interference: when you remember new materials and do not remember older materials. Describe what a serial position curve is and what it shows a. b. How well we do for each position on the list, depending on the list. We usually do well on the beginning and last of the list. Explain why short-term memory is considered a bottleneck a. b. Due to limited capacity in comparison to long-term memory. Gets memory from long-term memory and visual sensory memory. Stm is the bottleneck that and ltm and vsm is are the larger portions of the bottle.