PSY 452 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Memory Span, Interference Theory, Free Recall
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A very old idea in psychology around since the late 1800s. Nobody really studied short-term memory until the late 1950s. George miller suggests there is a limit to our processing capacity. Researchers originally believed forgetting occurred because memories fade over time: types of interference: It could be that other information gets: proactive interference: o retroactive interference, waugh & norman (1965): argued that forgetting was due to o ss see a series of digits at different rates. Researchers originally believed that info in stm was represented as an acoustic code. Conrad (1964): presented subjects with a series of 6 letters, shown briefly. o only used: b, c, P, t, v, f, m, n, s, x o errors were based on the. Philips (1974): ss presented with randomly filled grids. o. Ranged from 4x4 to 8x8: a second grid was presented (1/2 of the time the same) at different intervals, ss note whether the grids are the same.
