L5 STM

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Alisha Clarke

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  • According to Miller, how many items can we hold in our STM?
    7+/- 2 items
  • What is the primacy recency effect?
    The primacy recency effect refers to the tendency for people to remember the first and last items in a list more easily than the middle items. Primacy effect reflects the LTM, and recency effect reflects the STM
  • What was the case of HM?
    His LTM did not work, but he had normal STM
  • What was the case of KF? (Shallice & Warrington)
    Normal LTM but STM impaired: digit span reduced to max 2
  • What are the factors in the working memory model (Baddeley & Hitch)
    Central executive: integrates information.
    Visuo-spatial sketch pad: STM store for the manipulation of visual and spatial information
    Phonological loop: STM store for speech based codes
  • Baddeley et al 1975: short words better recalled than long words - amount of items correctly recalled is not 7, but whatever can be uttered in about 2 seconds.