TB4 P&C Lecture 1; Structures of memory

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Define temporary modality-specific storage
A basic property of sensory memory, each sense has a seperate store (iconic, haptic etc.)
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What happens easily to memories in STM (MSM model)
They are sensitive to interruption and displacement due to limited capacity, attention needed.
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What is the digit span of STM?
7+-2 digits
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What is the serial position effect?
It is hardest to recall items from the middle of the list, due to primacy and recency effects
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What are the two types of LTM?
Explicit memory (factual knowledge + personal exp.) and Implicit memory (Long term memories of conditioned responses+learned skills
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What is eyewitness transference?
The face is familiar, but the situation remembered in is incorrect
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What is proactive interference
The tendency for previously learned recall to disrupt the recall of new information
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What is retrograde amnesia?
The disruption of memories from the past, especially episodic memory
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Which tasks did amnesiac pps perform best at?
Implicit memory tasks, at a similar level to the controls
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What did the case study of HM show?
Different brain regions are important for memory, of which there are different types
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