PSYC 2700 Chapter Notes -Cognitive Psychology, Memory Span, Anterograde Amnesia
14 Aug 2014
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Ch 5, cognitive psychology lecture 6 a b 1. Ch 5, cognitive psychology lecture 6 a b 2. Peterson and peterson ( 1959: phase 1, present ccc ( consonant, consonant, consonant another form of non sense syllables, the ccc ( 3 letters) were present btwn 0 15 sec, results, people could recall all the ccc 100 % recall. Ch 5, cognitive psychology lecture 6 a b 3: people rehearse the ccc people usually rehearse the letters, the point is that rehearsal keeps in information in the short term memory not part of the results but my conclusion. Phases 2: they prevented rehearsal by having people count backwards at rate of twice per sec this a intervening task, found that people of information thus information decays ( leave) as the interval increases, see pg 170 figure 5. 1 for results, thus the point is that by preventing rehearsal information leaves ( decay, by the way rehearsal is done mentally.
