PSYC 3050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Memory Span, Implicit Memory, Explicit Memory
Document Summary
Information processing (ip) how we process information mechanisms of change. Ip the major perspective incogntiive development in last 50+ years. Ip approach: humans are information-processing systems much like computers: we have hardware (storage capacity and processing speed) and software (processes strategies) The mind/brain does not work like a computer. Yet the concepts and terminology of the computer have been applied to cognition. Store model: development of information processing: increases in two broad areas: Assumptions of information processibg: limited capacity: we can only process a cerain amount of info at a time, if too many operations are added it will interfere with the execution of other operations, cognition is domain general. Relies on the same pool of mental resources. More recent views assume that cognition is domain specific multiple resources or capacities. Duration of sensory memory differs for different senses: short term memory (working memory) the conscious processing of briefly stored information basic capacity.
