maintenance rehearsal: repeat something over and over; doesn't help us remember much

(short term memory)aka working memory; STM lasts: 30 seconds

All words same category gets harder: proactive interference

STM has: 7+-2 chunks

WORKING MEMORY

Central executive: directs flow of info; limited by resources,capacity

phonological loop: rehearsal to maintain verbal material: controls maintance rehearsal. stores info for 2 secs

Visuo-spatial sketchpad: maintain visual material. impt for creating and using mental images

stimulus independant thoughts: daydreams, worrying. doing a difficult task can limit these

articulatory control process: Allows maintenance rehearsal; the process that
produces the inner speech we all hear

hippocampus: stores long term memories

Trouble remembering new memories: antergrade amnesia
old memories: retrograde amnesia

primacy effect: stuff from the beginning of the list remembered *remember even after 60 secs
recency effect: end of the list remembered ; after 60 secs, we forget

Encoding: initial processing that (may) lead to long-term memory

Remembering words in case, by remembering "greater depth of processing
rythm, better
meaning, best

State dependent recall: showed that if testing occurs when you're in the same mood as learning, performance is better.

Spacing effect: you're much better off spacing study sessions that studying all at once. Schedule at least some time each day for studying

Sometimes you can remember something
enough to know it when you see it (recognition memory)
but not enough to produce it out of thin air (recall memory)

The Baker/baker paradox
● View a person's face, then hear a word that you are told is either a name or a profession.
(Of course “baker” or “potter” can be both)
●When you are told to remember what you were told later, people more often fail to recall names than occupations (even though it's the same word).