COGS 101B Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Baddeley'S Model Of Working Memory, Sketchpad, Mental Rotation
29 Mar 2016
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In our last lecture, we discussed how information is coded in short-term memory. One experiment found that consonants (e. g. mstljx) could be erroneously recalled (e. g. as msvlkx) if participants spoke during rehearsal. This kind of interference was said to suggest. An interesting inding from miller"s 1956 work was that the mode for number of items recalled seemed to be 5. o o o o. Nelson cowan (2001) points out that the number of items in stm seems to be closer to four. While miller was originally concerned with how many items could be temporarily stored, cowan & other are concerned with how many items can be used and manipulated. This (& other shortcomings) led to a reconceptualization of stm by baddeley & hitch (1974) as working memory. Importantly, this will characterize memory as a dynamic process. Working memory is an alternative model to short-term memory o o.
