PSYB57H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Mnemonic, Memory Rehearsal, Echoic Memory
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Chapter 5: the acquisition of memories and the working-memory system. For many years theorizing in cognitive psychology was guided by a perspective information processing: complex mental events such as learning, remembering, and deciding involved number of discrete steps. Theorizing within this approach focused on the process through which info was perceived and then moved into memory storage; process of information acquisition. A simplified version of the information processing model was the modal model (figure 5. 1) Long-term memory = repository that contains all knowledge and beliefs. Free call procedure = patients hear a series of words and are told to repeat as many as they can remember in any order. 12-15 out of 30 words is the average number of words remembered. First few words are extremely likely to be remembered = primacy effect. Last few words are likely to be remembered = recency effect: resulting pattern is u-shaped curve describing the relation between position within serial position.
