PSYCH101 Lecture 5: Memory and Motivation Notes

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Stephanie Denison

Document Summary

Three stores: differ in function, capacity, and duration. Control processes: control movement of info within and between stores. Give examples of selective viewing and selective listening. Central executive: drives the whole system (e. g. the boss of working memory) and allocates data to the subsystems (vss & pl). It also deals with cognitive tasks such as mental arithmetic and problem solving. Visuo-spatial sketchpad (inner eye): stores and processes information in a visual or spatial form. The phonological loop: is the part of working memory that deals with spoken and written material. It can be used to remember a phone number. Think about the different memory demonstrations that we did. Why do we forget: identify retrieval failures, encoding failures, and explain the forgetting curve. Encoding failure: should use elaboration, organization, and/or visualization. Notes: failures to remember things from encoding is popular in older populations. When they forget things like the name of the person they just met, that"s encoding.