Memory System Flashcards
What is the long term memory?
Receives information from the working memory and has an unlimited capacity for the storage of motor programmes
What is the job of the working memory?
Pick up the relevant info from the environment
Uses selective attention to filter out irrelevant information
What is association?
Linking the stored actions of a skill to a stored emotion or other action
What it chunking?
Breaking the skilled action into parts or sub routines
Methods to store information effectively
Use of rewards to help motivate performer to remember actions
Association of actions you wish to learn with appropriate actions or emotions already stored in the memory
Use of mental practice
Breaking down the task into parts (chunking)
Focussing on task in hand
Repetition of action
What is a motor programme?
A set of movements stored in the memory that specify the components of a skill
