PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Free Recall, Overlearning
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Recognition: using false alarm (fa false alarm) and hits (hr hit rate) give a better representation of a perso(cid:374)"s (cid:373)e(cid:373)ory. Sensory memory (sm: high capacity, very brief, has impact on sensory mechanism, attention is important. Short term memory (stm: ~20 seconds (15-30 secs, very limited, 7 2 item capacity. Long term memory (ltm: all of our experiences, knowledge, very capacity (infinite?, very long duration, could fail due to storage (encoding) or retrieval errors. If you practiced something more than what is usually necessary to memorize it: ensure that information is more impervious to being lost or forgotten. Recall task: we"re goi(cid:374)g to (cid:271)e (cid:373)easuri(cid:374)g the effe(cid:272)ts of ela(cid:271)orati(cid:374)g e(cid:374)(cid:272)odi(cid:374)g, recall (two lists of 20 words seen for 6 seconds each) (repetition vs. visualization) Iv type of rehearsal (repetition vs elaboration: dv free recall percent correct (not looking at serial order efforts today, cv= all common words, 6 seconds of study time, 30 seconds of delay before recall.
