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Working Memory
Brief, immediate memory for material
currently processing
Working Memory Approach-Baddeley
Overall intelligence and grades in school and with phonological loop are corralted with reading ability
Long-term Memory
large capacity that has experiences and infomation stored from over a liftime
Miller
7+/- 2
Chuck-Memory unit that consist of several components that are
strongly associated with one another
Primacy Effect/Serial Position Effect
Memory based on where everything is
Semantics
Meaning of words and sentences
Proactive Inteference
People have trouble learning new material because previous material interferes with learning
Phonological Loop
Process of
limited number of sounds
for a
short period of time
Acoustic Confusions
Confusion of similar sounding stimuli
Visuospatial Sketchpad
Gather visual info and store cohenrent picture
Ex. Car and looking out the window
Central Executive
-Controls Phonological loop, visuospatial sketchpad and episodic buffer
-Frontal lobe
-Random-number generation task-daydream
-Verbal fleuncy, reading comprehension, reasoning ablity and note-taking skills
Episodic Buffer
Temporary storehouse
where one gathers and combines infomation from
phonological loop, the visuospatial sketchpad and long-term momery
Interpret early experience, solve new problems and plan future activities
Author
Fresh1010
ID
22578
Card Set
Chapter 4
Description
Psyc 3350
Updated
2010-06-08T05:43:19Z
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