hey there, I have created this thread for purpose of ease, as having many different topics can be.... harder
if anybody wishes to ask questions here, please feel free.
my accumulation of questions:
1. is info mainly stored within STM in an acoustic form? while rarely being stored in the form of images?
2. could working memory be desrcribed as an alternative model to STM
3. what is an example of a task that the central executive would be responsible for?
4. what are some examples of tasks related to the phonological loop, and also the visuospatial sketchpad?
5. In regards to the serial position effect, could later items be described as being proactively interefered with.
6. defense mechanisms are unconscious, true?
7. how could the limitations of the decay theory be explained?
8. with the forgetting curve how much info is lost after 30 mins, 1hr, 2hrs and 8hrs?
thanks heaps
1. I don't think that one is any more than the other, but I'm not sure
2. Yes, I think it describes STM in more detail, but essentially is the same.
3. It's responsible for suppressing irrelevant information from entering conscious awareness (eg. me thinking about PE information when answering these questions)
4. These are gonna be crap examples but you get the jist of it. Phonological loop: thinking about the sound of birds tweeting, visuospatial sketchpad: remembering exactly where on your desk you put your pencil
5. If items at the end of the list are not remembered it COULD possibly be due to the fact that it was RETROactively interfered with what someone has said after you learned the list, but is more likely due to STM duration.
6. They're reflex, so I'm assume that yes, they're unconscious.
7. there's a few reasons, 1 being that there's no evidence of a physical memory trace, and another being that some people can remember things, given the right retrieval cue eg. someone remembering their childhood experiences upon returning to their childhood home despite not having thought about it for many many years.
8. 58% of information is retained after 20 minutes, 44% is retained after 1 hour, 34% is retained after 24 hours and around 21% after a week or something.
Correct me if I'm wrong. Those were all off the top of my head, so yeah..might be mistakes