Recent developments in short-term memory

Author: Murdock, B.B.J.

Description: This paper reviews some recent developments in the area of short-term memory. The methodological innovations include the distractor technique and the probe technique. The main empirical phenomena discussed are recency effects, input and output interference, the length-difficulty relationship, inter-item interference, proactive interference effects, the distribution of practice interaction, associative symmetry, modality effect, acoustic confusions, and transpositions. A “modal model” is presented which attempts to synthesize some recent theoretical conceptions; the components include sensory, short-term and long-term stores with three different forgetting mechanisms (decay, displacement and interference, respectively).

Subject headings: Association; Humans; Information Theory; Memory; Mental Processes; Methods; Models, Psychological; Practice (Psychology); Psychoacoustics; Psychometrics; Serial Learning; Time Factors; Verbal Learning

Keywords: Recent developments in short-term memory

Publication year: 1967

Journal or book title: British Journal of Psychology (London, England : 1953)

Volume: 58

Issue: 3

Pages: 421-433

Find the full text : https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.2044-8295.1967.tb01099.x

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Type: Journal Article

Serial number: 2882