PSYCH 3330 Chapter 5: Textbook Notes
10 Feb 2017
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Primary memory, elementary memory, immediate memory, short-term memory. Modern research on short-term working memory came hard on the heels of. A short-term memory is the memory we are conscious of. However, some mental (stm), short-term store (sts), temporary memory, supervisory attention system (sas), working memory (wm) all these terms refer to the same general type of memory where the immediately present moment is held in consciousness. This is where comprehension occurs. processes of short-term working memory are not open to consciousness: they are automatic. These processes yield no useful introspections; indeed, people often feel that they do not exist. selective attention studies of the mid-1950s. Short-term memory and working memory have different connotations. It is the label we use to focus on the input and storage of new information. Short-term memory is observed whenever short retention is tested no more than 15 or 20 seconds and when little, if any, transfer of new information to long- term memory is involved.
