Psychology 2135A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Subvocalization, Parietal Lobe, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: Mark Holden

Document Summary

Memory is a foundational cognitive skill: bedrock that all sorts of other skills are built upon. Memory: set of processes that allows us to record and later retrieve experience and information. Three component model developed by r. atkinson & r. shiffrin: atikinson-shiffrin model or modal model of memory. Takes into account 3 basic processes and the fact that we seem to have different types of memory. Proposes that there are 3 components of memory: sensory, short term (st), and long term (lt, these are functionally difference but don"t necessarily correspond to specific brain areas. Takes into account the most common features of other models being proposed in 60"s. Sperling"s experiment present an array of letter for 1/20th of a second (12 letters) and asked participants to remember the letters: condition a: whole report. Try to remember the whole thing, (12) Thought sensory memory could only hold 4-5: condition b: partial report. Hear a low, medium or high tone.