PSYB57H3 Lecture 6: Distinguishing between STM and LTM
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If its greater than 30 seconds ago and youre not still thinking about it. A: there"s more opportunity for rehearsal: eventually ability to continue rehearsing breaks down = too many words. Some info is being held in storage indefinitely. Semantic: if youre recalling a story it wont be the exact wording but youll encode the story based on meaning, evidence of codes in ltm memory beyond semantic. Chart theyre meaningful stimuli: wont remember auditory or visual stimuli that is meaningless in the long term. Asked if he had problems with memory, he would say yes. Hm"s case helped make clear that memory is not homogenous: stm and ltm are separate, prior to this researches had not made that distinction, distinction between declarative and non-declarative memory. Participants trace within line of the star by looking at reflection. K. f. had problems with repetition = if you asked him to say 1, he couldn"t do it.
