a. In determining the size of the angle between the hands on the clock, there must be a way for people to access an image of a clock. This tasks requires working memory because a person must be able to use the visuo-spatial sketchpad to recall what a clock looks like while they perform a task. It is also possible that the use of scanning would be able to demonstrate imagery. It would take longer to determine how big the angle is when they are further apart because you scan the clock more. So, when visualizing the difference between 4:10 and 9:23, it would take longer to visualize 9:23 than 4:10. This additional time shows that there must be some kind of image that is being referred to.
b. The symbolic distance effect occurs when people are …show more content…
“Note” would probably be remembered because it was the first word on the list, which gives it the advantage of the primacy effect. Lauren Morris
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a. The concept of prototypes investigates semantic long term memory. Prototypes are schemas that represent something, like a symbol, to which particulars of that thing are compared. The stability of prototype classification indicates that it is the prototype, as opposed to examples, that is stored in long term memory.
b. It is very difficult to determine which category mental rotation fits into. It is part of imagery, which bridges short term memory and long term memory, and it heavily uses the visuo-spatial sketchpad in working memory. So, it seems to investigate aspects of each kind of memory.
c. Serial position is also a hard concept to determine the focus of its investigating. The serial position curve shows that, in short term memory, primacy and recency are higher than the recall in the middle. However, serial position has many implications for the way in which short term memory is processed and then retrieved in long term memory, such as longer time between recall and shorter time between intervals causes recency to drop. Lauren Morris
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