PSYC 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Longitudinal Study, Spreading Activation, Free Recall
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Chapter 6: episodic and semantic memory 7/7/2015 8:06:00 pm. Archive of information about past events and knowledge learned. Stretches from just a few moments ago until the first thing you can remember. In general a difference between stm/wm and ltm is duration and capacity. Serial position (murdoch, 1962: read stimulus list, write down all words remembered, primacy effect. Memory better for stimuli presented at beginning. Give more attention to the first word and give less attention as there becomes more words. Better rehearsed, more time to rehearse, therefore more likely to enter ltm. If we tell the participants to repeat words out loud then we see a similar pattern: they tend to repeat the first few words more: recency effect. Memory better for stimuli presented at end of list. If we give people a 30 second delay (count backwards) the recency effect goes away.
