4. Working memory Flashcards

Key words ur Baddeley, Eysenck & Anderson (2009)

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Levels of processing

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The theory proposed by Craik and Lockhart that asserts that items that are more deeply processed will be better remembered.

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Visuo-spatial sketchpad

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A component of the Baddeley and Hitch model that is assumed to be responsible for the temporary maintenance of visual and spatial information.

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Semantic coding

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Processing an item in terms of its meaning, hence relating it to other information in long-term memory.

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Nonword repetition test

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A test where participants hear and attemp to repeat back nonwords that gradually increase in length,

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Supervisory attentional system (SAS)

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A component of the model proposed by Norman & Shallice to account for the attentional control of action.

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Confabulation

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Recollection of something that did NOT happen.

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Episodic buffer

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A component of the Baddeley & Hitch model of working memory model that assumes a multidimensional code, allowing the various subcomponents of working memory to interact with LTM

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Binding

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Term used to the linking of features into objects or of events into coherent episodes

EX: color red; shape square –> a red square

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Inhibition

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A general term applied to mechanisms that suppress other activities. Term can be applied to precis physiological mechanisms or to a more general phenomenon, as in proactive and retroactive interference. The level of activation associated with a trace is actively reduced to diminish its accessibility.

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Resource sharing

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Use of limited attentional capacity to maintain twi or more simultaneous activities

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Task switching

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A process whereby a limited capacity system maintains activity on two or more tasks by switching between them.

EX:

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Spatial working memory

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System involved in temporarily retaining information regarding spatial location

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Object memory

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System that temporarily retains information concerning visual features such as color and shape

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