PSYC 221 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6-7: Encoding Specificity Principle, Parietal Lobe, Episodic Memory
17 Mar 2019
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How is visual coding different in ltm and. How is auditory coding different in stm and. How is semantic coding different in stm and. The system that is responsible for storing information for long periods of time. Primacy effect: we are more likely to remember words that are presented at the beginning of a sequence. Recency effect: we are more likely to remember words at the end of a sequence. refers to the form in which stimuli are represented. Stm: representing the sounds of letters in our mind. Ltm: repeating a song you know in your mind. Ltm: recalling the general plot of a novel you read last week a patient who had their hippocampus removed could not create new long-term memories. A patient who suffered damage to their parietal lobe had a reduced digit span (stm) Evidence from brain damaged patients suggests that stm and ltm are separate since a person can have impaired ltm while maintaining stm.
