short term memory Flashcards
phonological loop:
responsible for maintaining and manipulating speech based info
visuospatial sketchpad:
maintaining and manipulating visual or spatial info
central executive:
selecting strategies and integrating information
episodic buffer:
limited capacity that can integrate info from the visuospatial sketchpad and phonological loop
the phonological loops is what type of working memory system?
auditory
articulatory suppression blocks:
verbal rehearsal
memory code:
representation used to store an item in memory
orienting tasks:
asking to make a judgement or rating on a specific dimension of a stimuli
orienting tasks are often followed by a:
recall or recognition task to see how making different types of judgements affects the later memory for the items
the number of words in between words starts with:
a critical letter, the more likely a person should remember that word
rote rehearsal:
repeating things over and over again
incidental learning:
learning without purposely learning
structural coding:
asks whether the word is in capital letters
phonemic coding:
asks whether a word rhymes with another word as question emphasizes pronunciation