Memory {verbal memory} {verbal short-term memory} can be about words, sentences, and stories. People can learn word sounds and visual appearances [Campbell, 1994].
properties
Words are easier to learn if they have high imagery, are highly concrete, have high frequency, have many associations, or have high meaningfulness.
Verbal short-term memory has small register and rapid decay.
factors
Imagery, frequency, familiarity, concreteness, semantic similarity, and meaningfulness influence verbal short-term memory only little, unlike for long-term memory.
interference
Phonemic similarity interferes.
working memory
Working memory includes module for verbal short-term memory. Working memory executive controls module but does not interfere with other cognitive work.
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