1. Short-Term/Long-Term Memory Distinction

2. Long Term Memory Questions to Consider
How does damage to the brain affect the ability to remember what has happened in the past and the ability to form new memories of ongoing experiences?
How are memories for personal experiences, like what you did last summer, different from memories for facts, like the capital of your state?
How do the different types of memory interact in our everyday experience?
How has memory loss been depicted in popular films?

3. Long Term Memory

4. Modal Model of Memory Suggests separate LTM-STM systems
Atkinson-Shiffrin:
Suggests separate LTM-STM systems
Control processes transfer information to LTM
Sensory Memory
STM/ WM
LTM
input
output
Rehearsal

5. Modal Model of Memory Permanent Memory Storage
Environmental (External) Input
Sensory Registers (Sensory Memory)
Visual
Auditory
Haptic
Olfactory
Gustatory
Lost from
Sensory Register
Short Term Memory (STM)
Temporary Working Memory
Lost from STM
Control Processes:
Rehearsal
Coding
Retrieval Strategies
Long Term Memory (LTM)
Lost from LTM

6. Modal Model of Memory Atkinson-Shiffrin (1968)
Paired associates learning task
Recall of rehearsed associate is a function of rehearsal
Recall of unrehearsed associate is a function of recall delay
31-Q
42-M
54-L
22-E
37-P
31 = ___
Study
Test

7. Serial Position Effects
Murdoch (1962)
Studied the distinction between STM and LTM
Read stimulus list, write down all words remembered
Serial position curve
Primacy effect
Recency effect

8. Serial Position Effects
Glanzer & Cuntiz (1966)
Presented subjects with words for later recall
Immediate recall vs. delayed recall

9. Serial Position Effects
Rundus (1971)
Is it the case that primacy reflects more rehearsal?
Participants rehearsed any items they wanted

10. Serial Position Effects
Craik (1970) and Negative Recency Effect
Subjects performed many immediate recall tests
“Surprise” memory test for all items on all lists given at end