PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: Endel Tulving, Baddeley'S Model Of Working Memory, Episodic Memory

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jens Pruessner

Document Summary

Information attended to is passed from sensory stores to short term memory (stm), a limited capacity system that holds information in awareness for a brief period of time, but longer than the sm. It is called the working memory, to indicate that it is a memory system that combines information from different sources and can work on the information we have in memory. It is also called immediate memory (i. e. ram) information remains in wm for about 20 to 30 sec, and then disappears if not rehearsed. Wm can hold a limited amount of information. Miller noted that it is generally of 7 items, a figure referred to as memory span, which varies among individual. Chunking: organizing, breaking down information in meaningful units to make it easier to remember. The greater our expertise with the material, the more efficiently we will chunk.