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Sensory memory - answer the large-capacity storage system that
records information from each of the senses with reasonable
accuracy
Short-term memory - answer the part of of memory that holds only
the small amount of information that a person is actively using. The
more current term for this type of memory is working memory
Chunk - answer a memory unit that consists of several components
that are strongly associated with one another
Explain chunking in your own words. - answer describes the basic
unit in short-term memory
How might chunking help when studying for an exam or memorizing
a phone number? - answer instead of trying learn an entire phone
number or an entire fact, we can learn certain parts, or chunks, to
facilitate memorization
Why might sensory memory be hard to prove? - answer it is not
observable, it is a mental process
differentiate between sensory memory and short-term memory -
answer sensory memory: a storage system that records
information from each of the senses with reasonable accuracy,
operates unconsciously
, short-term memory: the memory system that is responsible for
holding onto a small amount of information that has been recently
taken from the environment, operates consciously (what isn't lost
from sensory memory moves onto short-term memory according the
atkinson-shriffrin model)
What is the duration of short-term memory? - answer 30 seconds
(according to the atkinson-shriffrin model)
Brown/Peterson and Peterson Technique - answer involves
presenting participants with some items that they are instructed to
the distracting task. After spending some time on the distracting
task, participants are then asked to recall the original items
Rehearsal - answer repeating items silently
Serial-postion effect - answer the U-shaped relationship between a
word's position in a list and its probability of recall
Recency Effect - answer better recall for items at the end of a list
Primacy effect - answer enhanced recall for items at the beginning
of the list
Semanitics - answer the meaning of words and sentences
proactive interference - answer people have trouble learning new
material because previously learned material keeps inferring with
their new language
release from proactive interference - answer when old material no
longer interferes new material, possibly because of a change in
semantics (Wickens and colleagues)
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