PSY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Endel Tulving, Short-Term Memory, Sensory Memory
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It is fairly easy to plant a false memory. We do well on the first and (maybe the last items) Thus, recall seems to depend on an item"s place in the list. Items on a list is called serial position. When plotted on a graph it looks like a u-shape: recency effect. Good recall for items at the end of the list. Last items still awareness, easy to write down. Stm: synonymous with conscious awareness: primacy effect. The up curve heading downward on a the curve. Good recall for items at the beginning of the list. Not the retina being activated, a separate store. A visual store (lasts half a second: echoic -- an auditory store i. An auditory store (lasts a few seconds: short-term memory (stm) Sensitive to receiving types of information (when someone calls your name) Decay: when you don"t process or try to memorize it then it fades away.
