PSYC 2450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Memory Span, Attention Span, Implicit Memory

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2450
• Professor: Carol Anne Hendry

Document Summary

Chapter 9: cogniive development- informaion processing perspecives and connecionism. Mulistore model: informaion-processing model that depicts informaion as lowing through three processing units: the sensory store, the short-term store and the long-term store. Sensory store: simuli are noiced and briely available for further processing. Can hold large amount of info but for a short ime. Short term store (sts): simuli is retained for several seconds and operated on aka working memory. You remember a phone number unil you dial it, ater you forget unless you always rehearse it. Long-term store: info that has been examined and interpreted is permanently stored for future use. Includes your knowledge of the world, impressions and strategies. Execuive control processes: process of regulaing atenion and determining what to do with the info just father or retrieved from long-term memory. Under voluntary control, unlike computers which are automaic. Metacogniion: knowledge of one"s cogniive abiliies and process related thinking.