PSYC2010 Chapter 7: Child Development (Berk) Chapter 7
9 Mar 2017
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Psyc 2010 - chapter 7: cognitive development: an. Often uses the metaphor of a computer encoding, recoding, and decoding. The store model is this computer-like view that emerged in the late 1960s. 2. in the short-term memory store we retain attended-to information brie y so we can actively work on it to reach our goals. The basic capacity of the short-term memory store is the short-term memory. The verbatim digit span tests the long sequence of items a person can repeat back in order the average for an adult is 7. The working memory is a more contemporary view of the short-term memory store, which is the number of items that can be brie y held in mind while also engaging in some effort to monitor or manipulate those items. The working memory span is typically two-items fewer than the short- term memory span.
