Chapter 4 Working Memory Flashcards
What is short term memory
The memory system that is responsible for taking a small about of information the enviroment
Limited in capacity and duration
What is long term memory
Hold answer and informations accumulated over long period of time
Large capacity
Unlimited durations
George Miller
Magical number 7
Remember about seven items
What is chunk
Memory units consisting of strongly associated components
The brown/Peterson and Peterson Technique
Presenting a participant with some items that they are instructed to remember then distracinting them and then you ask them to recall
What is rehearsal
Repeating something over and over again to remember it
What is serial position effect
The U shaped relationship between the word and its probability of recall
Wickens and colleagues
Proactive interference= people having trouble learning new material bc previous material interferes with new learning
What is the control process
Flow of info for
Sensory memory, short term memory, long term memory
Atkinson and Shiffrin
Information Processing
What is working memory
Brief immediate memory for limited amount of material that you are currently processing
Working memory approach
Immediate memory is a multipart system that temporarily hold and manipulates information while we perform tasks
Phonological loop
Working memory system that processes a limited number of sounds for a short period of time
Subvocalization
Silently producing the words you are reading
Acoustic confusions
People confuse similar sounding stimuli
Visuospatial Sketchpad
Process both visual and spatial information
Stores visual appearances and information from encoded verbal stimuli
Episodic Buffer
Temporary storehouse that can hold adn combine information for the phonological loop, the sketch pad and the long term memory
Manipulates info for interpretations
Central executive
Interrogates info from all the parts to focus attentions, transform info and coordinate behavior
Rumination
Obsessive thinking involving excessive repetition thoughts themes that interfere with other forms of metal actity
