Day 7 Psyc432

• -Store info while we are working on it
• -Build syntatic structure
• -Retrieve words
• -Make interpretations

• -Store knowledge
• -Grammatical rules
• -Words
• -Semantics (meaning)

• The Central Executive broken down into...
• 1. Phonological Loop- holds speech based info
• 2. Visual- spatial sketchpad- holds mental images of visual and spatial information.

• -Holds about 7 digits at one time
• - limited
• -hard to process info if it's difficult or if there is a lot of it.

• -What information is used during processing
• -Structure of knowledge

activation in one node can spread to other nodes.

Automatic process is when a stimulus automatically retrives information. It is uncontrolled and tends to be faster. Controlled process is when we use cognitive control and tends to be slower.

Researcher who did experiment illustrating that spreading of activation is automatic. (1977)