PSY270H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Episodic Memory, Positron Emission Tomography, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence
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Short-term memory capacity: our immediate memory cannot encode vast quantities of new information and hold it accurately. Short-term or working memory is an intermediate system between the sensory and long-term memories. People were told to attend to the letters, then to begin counting backward by threes from the numbers they given. People forget at a dramatic rate only after several trials. Release from pi: release from pi: when the decline in performance caused by proactive interference is reversed. Performance deteriorates because of the buildup of proactive interference because of a switch in the to-be-remembered stimuli: retrieval of short-term memory refers to the act of bringing knowledge to the foreground of. Short-term memory retrieval thinking, and perhaps reporting it. Serial position curve: a graph of item-by-item accuracy on a recall task. Serial position simply refers to the original position an item had in a study list: free recall: people are free to recall the list items in any order.
