PSY 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Anterograde Amnesia, Retrograde Amnesia, Henry Molaison
22 Mar 2017
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Chapter 6: long-term memory: structure of ltm. Ltm: an archive of info about past events and things tat we have learned. Differs from stm in its basic properties: things fade from stm after 20-30. Interactions between stm and ltm from ltm seconds, info in ltm can be permanent b/c unlimited duration: stm can only hold about 4-7 things. Ltm can never be filled unlimited capacity. Maintenance rehearsal: repeating info during your inner speech in order to maintain it in stm: the longer info is held in stm, the more likely it is to be transferred to ltm. Items in the middle list positions are generally harder to remember. If primacy is due to the umber of rehearsals of an item, there should be more rehearsal for early listed items. He asked subjects to rehearse out loud, and counted the number of times each list word was spoken. Early list items are rehearsed a lot; rehearsal declines with increasing serial position.
