PSYC 2500H Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Autobiographical Memory, Free Recall, Reticular Formation

• School: Trent University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2500H
• Professor: Nancie Im- Bolter

Document Summary

Executive control processes (process in planning & monitoring what you attend to and what you d with this input) Metacognnition (knowledge og 1s cognitive abilities and processsses related to thinking) Capacity is assessed by memory span (# of rapidly presented & unrelated items that can be recalled in exact order) Span of apprehension (# of items that can be kept in mind at 1 time or can attend to at once without operatitng mentally on the info) Individual & developmental diff in memory span are influenced by childs prior knowledge of material: changes of processing speed. Maturationally based factors are primarily responsible for broad age- related diff in speed of info processing. Increased myelinization of neurons in the thinking areas of the brain and the elimination of excess neural synapses that could interfere with efficient info processing. Strategies (subset of executive functions, usually defined as deliberately implemented, goal- directed operations used to aid task performance)