Chapter 8: Memory

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Overview of the Adaptive Problems • We need some kind of internal process to help us remember information over the short term. • Once information leaves the present, we need to store it internally so that we can recover it quickly at the right place and time. • As we interact with the world, we need to recover information from the immediate and distant past. • Forgetting also has adaptive value - it keeps us current and prevents us from acting in ways that are no longer appropriate.

Chapter 8: Memory

Module 8.1: Intro., Sensory and Short-Term Stores

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What These Adaptive Problems Require: Memory • Memory: The capacity to preserve and recover information • Involves several important processes:

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• Encoding: How memories are formed • Storage: How memories are kept over time • Retrieval: How memories are recovered and translated into performance

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LTM Long-term Memory Exec

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Remembering over the Short Term: Overview

Sensory Memory • Exact replica of an environmental message which usually lasts for a second or less • Lingering traces created by the:

• Sensory memory • The “icon” and the “echo”

• Short-term memory • The “inner voice” and the “inner eye” • Short-term forgetting • Short-term memory capacity

• Iconic memory system (vision) • Echoic memory system (audition)

• Adaptive value?

• Working memory

• Visual processing • Language processing

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What’s the Evidence That We Have Iconic Memory

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• Whole report of a briefly presented array: Only a small percent recalled • Partial report (Sperling): • T one cues participants which row to report •

Tone comes after the array is gone

• Much larger percent recalled, regardless of which row

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Short-Term Memory • A system we use to temporarily store, think about, reason with information • Example of adaptive value: Language

• The “inner voice” • We tend to recode (translate) information into inner speech to keep it in short-term memory

• The “inner eye” • We can also code information visually, using images 13

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What’s the Evidence that We Use the Inner Voice/Inner Eye? • Inner voice: • Mistakes made during short-term recall tend to sound like, but not look like, the correct items •

Example: Might mistake “B” for “V”

• Inner eye: • Judgments made based on mental images are similar to those based on actual pictures •

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How Long Do Short-Term Memories Last? • Can prolong short-term memories indefinitely through using rehearsal • A strategic process of internal repetition • Can prevent rehearsal with another task, such as counting backwards

• Without rehearsal, memories disappear after 1-2 seconds

Example: When you picture something as being larger in your mind’s eye, easier to “see” small details in it 15

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What’s the Capacity of Short-Term Memory?

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• Memory span: Number of items that can be recalled from short-term memory, in order, on half of the tested memory trials • It’s about 7 plus or minus 2 items

• Not absolute; also depends on: • How quickly items can be rehearsed • Chunking Rearranging incoming information into meaningful or familiar patterns • Example: Chess experts can recall meaningful arrangements of pieces on a board (but not random arrangements) •

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Working Memory: A System for ShortTerm Retention

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• Several distinct mechanisms: • Phonological loop: Like the inner voice, stores word sounds • Visuospatial sketchpad: Stores visual and spatial information • Central executive: Determines which mechanism to use, coordinates among them

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