PSYCH 240 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Random Number Generation, Anterograde Amnesia, Mental Chronometry
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Individual differences: measure of wm span: measure wm span with a reading span task where you are presented a series of sentences and have to remember the last word of each sentence. Iq is normed by age and will start to decline with age eventually: rave(cid:374)"s, agi(cid:374)g, wm, ra(cid:448)e(cid:374)"s i(cid:374)(cid:272)reases (cid:449)ith (cid:271)etter wm, ra(cid:448)e(cid:374)"s de(cid:272)reases (cid:449)ith age (cid:894)(cid:449)orse wm) Interference: random number generation: a task involving wm because you need to hold on to the numbers you have said so that you do not repeat them. Info can get into phonological store (auditory); vibrotactile memory can still be stored in language based buffer. Visuospatial buffer involves visual imagery and spatial processing; info comes in via vision or from ltm: acts as a storage unit, once inside, can zoom/rotate/manipulate the information. Idea that having both the task and response be vocal or both be visual interferes with each other.
