PSYCH207 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Long-Term Memory, Sensory Memory, Dissociative Identity Disorder
12 Oct 2013
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The serial position effect - (*refer to graphs*) Participants hear a list of words, interval between words slowly decreases. Primacy: better recall of beginning part of list, items benefit from rehearsal; items in long term memory. Recency: better recall of last few words, can still hear last few items on the list, items part of short term and sensory memory. Large or even infinite - there is no concrete line as to the maximum capacity. Bahrick found notion of permastorage: large portion of originally acquired information remained accessible for over 50 years in spite of the fact that it was not used. Recall declined for first 3-6 years after forgetting spanish, but not much forgetting for the next 3 decades, final decline after 30-35 years (primarily due to age, not forgetting) Most likely due to interference, similar to short term memory.
