Lecture 9 Flashcards
1
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What is working memory?
A
limited capacity system for storage and maniuplation of information
2
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Phonological loop
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- holding on to verbal info
3
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Phonological similarity effect
A
GKDYF
If you mess up in recall it will be in something that sounds similar, instead of looking alike.
You are more likely to mess up with S instead of E. because S sounds more like F.
4
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Word length Effect
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- people will perform better on short words because it’s less syllables
- harder to remember mroe syllabels.
5
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articulatory supression
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- classmates won’t shutup behind you, makes it hard to focus
- perform better when there is no competing verbal information. ie. studying with w/music w/speech
6
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Viusaospatial sketch pad
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- rotate the cubes around in our head
- the more degrees off, the longer it’s going to take to mentally solve it. just like how it would be physically
7
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What did Lee brooks discover about visuosptial tasks?
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- talking doesn’t slow you down
- you can ever focus with interference
8
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What is Central excecutive
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- coordinating resources that we have at our disposal
- talking to somone is mentally stimulating
- it will affect attention
9
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What does process pure mean?
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- only verbal, or only spatial
10
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imporved working memory is linked to?
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- working memory is linked to fluid intellgence
10
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episodic buffer
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- our past experiences will help us remember
- you remeber things that are more long and complex
- inlfuence of long term memory in working memory
11
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what is fluid intelligence
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- notice patterns in the world aroud you
12
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n-back task
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recall 2nd last number
13
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Brain training
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- no good evidnece that playing games “transfer”into real world tasks
- training does not generalize
14
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What is an alternative to brain training
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- learning a language
