PSYC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Franciscus Donders, Episodic Memory, Sketchpad

• School: UCSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1
• Professor: B E N S T O R M, M A U R E E N C A L L A N A N, K I M C A R D I L L A

Document Summary

Working memory: people manipulate mental images, mental models, and concepts in wm to reason, solve problems, & make decisions, central executive: controls attention & coordinates information for phonological loop and visuo-spatial. Sketchpad: phonological loop: speech-based information (overlaps a great deal w/stm, visuospatial sketchpad: analogous to phonological loop for visual information, episodic buffer: combines current and ltm info. Establish the process of time in intermediate processes. The subtraction of two different tasks (compare and contrast how long it takes) Figure out the equivalent of how long it takes to. Parallel process: serial: next process begins only after current process is completed try to figure out if we process one after the other, parallel: processes operate simultaneously or does it happen all at once. Time equivalence of serial & parallel processes: determining whether processes are serial or parallel by assessing extent to which processes place demands on mental resources.