PSYCO104 Study Guide - Final Guide: Alan Baddeley, Short-Term Memory, Long-Term Memory

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO104
• Professor: Clayton Dickson

Document Summary

Chapter 8 memory: long term memory, short term memory / working memory, sensory memory. Holds incoming sensory information long enough for it to be recognized. Sensory registers: initial info processors: visual sensory register: iconic store (very short, visual forms, auditory sensory register: echoic store (longer than iconic) last for more than a fraction of a second) Memory codes: representations that enable sensory memory -> short term -> long term chunking: does not correspond to form of original stimulus, enhanced by associations between concepts (hierarchy, George miller: magical number of 7 (+ or - 2) meaningful items that can be held in short term memory. Chunking: combining individual items into larger units to help. Maintenance rehearsal: repeating until it is stored in long term remember memory. Elaborative rehearsal: thinking about the meaning or relating it to previously learned concepts. Working memory is a mental space involved in problem solving, planning, interacting with long term memory.