PSY 3377 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Simple Math, Frontal Lobe, Mental Rotation

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3377
• Professor: Sylvain Gagnon

Document Summary

Stm concerned mainly w storing info for a brief period of time e. g. phone number. Baddeley concluded: working memory must be dynamic and proposed three components: phonological loop, visuospatial sketch pad, central executive. Verbal reasoning task made use of central executive and digit span task made use of phonological loop. 2 components the phonological store: limited capacity and holds info for only a few seconds. Articulatory rehearsal process: responsible for rehearsal that can keep items in phonological store from decaying. Using phonological loop when: remembering phone number or persons name, or understand what prof is talking about. Articulatory suppression interference w operation of phonological loop that occurs when person repeats an irrelevant word like the while carrying out task that requires phonological loop. Visuospatial sketch pad visual and spatial info forming picture in mind, finding way around campus attached to central executive (as well as phonological loop)