Chapter 4 - Working memory Flashcards
Levels of processing
The theory proposed by Craik and Lockhart that asserts that items that are more deeply processed will be better remembered.
Visuo-spatial sketchpad
A component of the Baddeley and Hitch model that is assumed to be responsible for the temporary maintenance of visual and spatial information.
Semantic coding
Processing an item in terms of its meaning, hence relating it to other information in long-term memory.
Nonword repetition test
A test whereby participants hear and attempt to repeat back nonwords that gradually increase in length.
Supervisory attentional system (SAS)
A component of the model proposed by Norman and Shallice to account for the attentional control of action.
Confabulation
Recollection of something that did not happen.
Episodic buffer
A component of the Baddeley and Hitch model of working memory model that assumes a multidimensional code, allowing the various subcomponents of working memory to interact with long-term memory.
Binding
Term used to refer to the linking of features into objects (e.g. color red, shape square, into a red square), or of events into coherent episodes.
Inhibition
A general term applied to mechanisms that suppress other activities. The term can be applied to a precise physiological mechanism 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.
Resource sharing
Use of limited attentional capacity to maintain two or more simultaneous activities.
Task switching
A process whereby a limited capacity system maintains activity on two or more tasks by switching between them.
Spatial working memory
System involved in temporarily retaining information regarding spatial location.
Object memory
System that temporarily retains information concerning visual features such as color and shape.
