PSY270H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Temporal Lobe, Semantic Memory, Interference Theory
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Cognitive psychology: chapter 6 long-term memory: structure. Interaction: refers to the fact that the different types of memory can interact and share mechanisms. A classic experiment by b. b murdoch jr (1962) studied the distinction between stm and ltm using the serial position curve. Later, he added a twist to his experiment by presenting another list, asked his subjects to repeat the words out loud during the 5-second intervals. The dashed blue curve indicates how many times each word was repeated, and it showed words early in the list were rehearsed more. The result shown in the blue curve shows that the delay caused by the counting eliminated the recency effect. The conclusion was that the recency effect is due to storage of recently presented items in. If you remembered the pattern by representing it visually in your mind. Visual code in ltm when visualizing a person/place from the past (e. g. remembering a face: auditory coding in stm and ltm.
