PSY372H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Blackboard, Long-Term Memory, Memory Span
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Paper 1: article review: information about what to include in the first assignment and the rules. What is working memory: mental blackboard , ex. Processing and thinking about other information: important cognitive skills, forms basis for other cognitive skills, your ability to problem solve, planning, reasoning. How is working memory used: there are many situations that working memory is used, need to constantly keep the information active and also operate, manipulate and manage in some way. Capacity of stm: in the 1950s, the cognitive revolutions, george miller proposed the magic number 7 plus or minus two which said stm has limited capacity. Stability of stm: not very stable. Brown petersen task: distract people by engaging in another task, memory for those digits, after 6 seconds, it"s about 50% recall, but by 16 secs, there"s virtually no recall. Forgetting: decay is hard to test, interference.
