PNB 2XA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Long-Term Memory, Executive Functions, Recode

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour
• Course: PNB 2XA3
• Professor: David I Shore

Document Summary

Listening confusions- hard to hear (letters that sound alike) Sound alike errors much more likely, even in visual confusions, because you code audibly over and over to memorize. Subvocal speech, phonological buffer, mechanisms for reading the buffer, (articulatory loop) central executive. Predicts you will do worse when saying abcs before recall. Reduction in sound-alike errors (conrad: no effect on memory for visual shapes, word-length effect (zhang) Single chinese ideographs (visually same length, but some longer to pronounce: monosyllabic result: (6. 6 ideographs) Jacoby & bartz, 1972: given 5 or 20 word lists. Silence delay before recall, no delay or filled delay (do a task during delay) Sometimes we use specific knowledge and expectations (cid:862) u(cid:271)li(cid:373)i(cid:374)al (cid:373)essages: bet(cid:449)ee(cid:374) the de(cid:448)il a(cid:374)d (cid:373)edia(cid:863: what we expect to hear changes what we actually perceive stimulus. Says pastor green actually embedded these phrases himself with his expectations. General knowledge: we use general knowledge to make assumptions in context.