PSY270H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6-7: Semantic Memory, Episodic Memory, Explicit Memory
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Chapter six: distinguishing between long-term memory and short-term memory: korsakoff"s syndrome: a condition caused by a prolonged deficiency of vitamin b1, usually as a result of chronic alcoholism. A possible explanation for the primacy effect is that participants had time to rehearse these words and transfer them to ltm. So when a person is told the first word, they start rehearsing the word. When the second word is presented, the attention of rehearsal is divided. This is why less rehearsal is possible for later words: recency effect: superior memory for stimuli presented at the end of the sequence. A possible explanation for the recency effect is that the most recently presented words are still in the stm: experiment: measured the participant"s curve after getting them to count backward for 30 seconds after hearing the last word. His semantic memory is still intact: opposite case in italian woman who lost semantic memory.
