PSYCO258 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Long-Term Memory, Episodic Memory, Interference Theory
19 Mar 2016
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No t e b o o k: cognitive psych. Long-term memory: a memory mechanism that can hold large amounts of information for long periods of time. Spans from about 30 seconds ago to one"s earliest memories. Serial position curve: a plot of the percentage of participants remembering each word against the position of the word in that list in a memory experiment. Primacy effect: enhanced memory for words presented at the beginning of a list in a memory experiment. Likely related to the longer rehearsal time available for words in the beginning of a list. Recency effect: enhanced memory for words presented at the end of a list in a memory experiment. Likely because the most recently presented words are still in short-term memory and easy to access. Coding: the form in which stimuli are presented in the mind. The physiological approach to coding is determining how a stimulus is represented by the firing of neurons.
