PSYC 2700 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sensory Memory, Sentence Clause Structure, Supplementary Motor Area
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Short term store encoding: selective attention from sensory memory, also retrieve info from long term store. Short term store duration: brown peterson task, phase 1: show consonant-consonant-consonant and recall after 0-15s delay, 100% recall: phase 2: show ccc, delay with a task and then recall, decay of memory trace in sts if prevent rehearsal, 15-20 seconds duration if not rehearsed (while sensory memory is of a second or. Short term store capacity: limited to 7 plus or minus 2, recall: sensory memory and long-term store are large. Serial position curve 1: primacy effect: remember first few words on a list, retrieved from lts, recency effect: remember last few words on a list, the most recent, retrieved from sts, u-shaped curve. Serial position curve 2: second list of words presented had a distraction in the last few words in the list so you don"t get recency effect, only a primacy one.
