Chapter 4

• 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

large capacity that has experiences and infomation stored from over a liftime

• 7+/- 2
• Chuck-Memory unit that consist of several components that are strongly associated with one another

Memory based on where everything is

Meaning of words and sentences

People have trouble learning new material because previous material interferes with learning

Process of limited number of sounds for a short period of time

Confusion of similar sounding stimuli

• Gather visual info and store cohenrent picture
• Ex. Car and looking out the window

• -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

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