PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 24: Alan Baddeley, Compact Space, Long-Term Memory
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Many psychologists, such as alan baddeley and others contributed and extended the model of working memory that was proposed by atkinson and. What these psychologists added onto the model was that short term memory is a tiny and compact space that stores newly acquired thoughts and experiences. This current stage is permanent and keeps information that comes in. It"s active and is continuously working similar to a computer desktop. How the brain is able to process the information is through the comprehension and understanding of the new information that is incoming and through interconnecting and intertwining it with the long term memory. An example of this is words that sound the same but have different meanings. Examples of this include; ice cream and i scream; banned and band;