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16 Cards in this Set
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Articulatory suppression
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A technique for disrupting verbal rehearsal by requiring participants to continuously repeat a spoken item
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Chunking
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A technique for disrupting verbal rehearsal by requiring participants to continuously repeat a spoken item
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Corsi block tapping
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Visuo-spatial counterpart to digit span involving an array of blocks that the tester taps in a sequence and the patient attempts to copy
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Digit Span
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Maximum number of sequentially presented digits that can reliably be recalled in the correct order.
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Double-dissociation
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A term particularly used in neuropsychology when two patient groups show opposite patterns of deficit, e.g. normal STM and impaired LTM, versus normal LTM and impaired STM.
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Free Recall
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A method whereby participants are presented with a sequence of items, which they are subsequently required to recall in any order they wish
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Irrelevant sound effect
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A tendency for verbal STM to be disrupted by concurrent fluctuating sounds, including both speech and music
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Long-term recency
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A tendency for the last few items to be well recalled under conditions of long-term memory
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Phonological loop
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Term applied by Baddeley and Hitch to the component of their model responsible for the temporary storage of speechlike information.
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Phonological similarity effect
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A tendency for immediate serial recall of verbal material to be reduced, when the items are similar in sound.
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Primacy effect
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A tendency for the first few items in a sequence to be better recalled than most of the following items.
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Recency effect
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A tendency for the last few items in a list to be well recalled.
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The Peterson task
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Short-term forgetting task in which a small amount of material is tested after a brief delay filled by a rehearsal-preventing task.
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Visuo-spatial STM
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Retention of visual and/or spatial information over brief periods of time.
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Word length effect
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A tendency for verbal memory span to decrease when longer words are used
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Working memory span
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Term applied to a range of complex memory span tasks in which simultaneous storage and processing is required.
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