PSYC 364 Midterm: Chapter 6 - LTM
9 Mar 2017
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Ltm can hold information for as long as you live (e. g. , language); conditioned fears. Unlike stm, ltm has a vast capacity: capacity: immeasurably vast; capacity for learning is limited only by time and the physiological health of the brain. The serial position curve (murdoch, 1962: p"s are presented with a list of 20 words, p"s write down (recall) as many words as possible, % of recall is plotted as a function of serial position. This paradigm illustrates: primacy effect, recency effect. Later research showed: primacy effect ltm (where you sat on day 1 example, recency effect stm (where you sit today) Primacy = ltm mechanism these words are being rehearsed more, and therefore, are being transferred to ltm. Recency = stm mechanism these words are not being rehearsed, but are nevertheless recalled well. This is because they are still in stm.
