PSYC 40445 Study Guide - Spring 2019, Comprehensive Final Exam Notes - Memory, Daily Review, Working Memory
29 Mar 2019
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Holding place for information that is currently being attended to. After about 20 seconds only 10% can remember one trigram. Rehearsal: rehearsing info to maintain it in stm (short-term memory) Miller (1956) the magical number 7 (+/- 2) Phone numbers are only 10 digits because that"s about the limit we can remember. Modal model assumes that everything you"ve ever learned is held in long-term forever. Rehearsal helps you maintain information in short-term memory. Has to be processed long enough that we can transfer over that information into long- term memory. To do mundane daily tasks (get three things at the store that you can remember) Y: number of students that remember the given word. X: when the words were said in the list (position in the list read) One of the first words, two middle words, one of the last words. A lot of people remember one of the first words (high point on graph)
