PSYCH 2H03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: The Magic 7, Mnemonic, Subvocalization
21 Mar 2016
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We store vast amounts of info acquired over our lifetimes. We retrieve info or fail to retrieve. Modal model of info acquisition: a series of stages through which info is detected, recognized, stored and retrieved. Working memory string of numbers but if you don"t keep it in mind then you"re more likely to forget. Then can allow you to stop rehearsing and stop thinking so that you can retrieve specific info automatically. Working memory: small, at hand, in use, active, current and fast. Long-term memory: vast, reference library, files, dormant, slow. Functionally distinct does not necessarily imply physically distinct. List of 30 words, one per sec, followed by free recall of as many words as can be remembered. We"ll do 15 words in the next example . U-shaped graph with two separate effects: primacy effect good at first things, long-term memory, recency effect good at last things, working memory. Serial position curve suggests two kinds of memory based on:
