Week 3 - Cognition: Memory with updated questions and answers

What are the three parts of information processing important for memory? - ans ---Encoding- getting info in Storage- retention of info Retrival- getting info out of storage How do recall and recognition differ? - ans ---Recall- remember it, detailed ex) short answer Recognition- multiple choice, something familiar Sperling's study of sensory memory (SIS): How does accuracy vary in partial report and whole report formats? How does delaying recall affect accuracy? What are: iconic, echoic, hepatic? - ans ---As time goes by, remember less Iconic- visual Echoic- auditory Haptic- touch What are chunking and the serial position effect, including primacy and recency? - ans ---Chunking- combining small pieces of info into larger clusters/chunks that are easily held in short term memory Serial position effect- recall the first and last items in a series best, and the middle items worst Primacy- 1st words remembered better than middle words; intermediate and delayed Recency- last words are recalled better than the 1st and middle words; intermediate recall only What is the real function of STS? Does merely repeating info in STS (or WM) lead to a strong LTM trace? What are maintenance rehearsal and elaborative rehearsal (encoding)? - ans ---Real function STS- organization and elaboration Repeating info does not lead to strong LTM Maintenance rehearsal- temporarily maintaining the new information in the short-term memory. It usually works by repetition.