PSYCH 2H03 Chapter 5: Learning Reading 5
10 Feb 2017
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Chapter 5: the acquisition of memories and the working-memory system. Retrieval: find information in memory and bring it into active use. Information processing theory: complex mental events such as learning, remembering, or deciding involve a large number of discrete steps: incoming information, early analysis, short-term memory, long-term memory. Items removed from long-term memory back into short-term member are. Modal model: information processing involves different kinds of memory. All mental tasks rely on working memory. Retrieval of information can be effortful and slow. Free recall tasks provide evidence that short-term and long-term memory are separate mechanisms. Primacy effect: tendency to remember words at the beginning of a list: rehearsed information transferred to long-term memory, words at the beginning of the list are rehearsed more. Recency effect: tendency to remember words at the end of a list: information found in working memory. The primacy and recency effects create a u-shaped curve on a serial positive curve.
