PSYCH 3312 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Parietal Lobe, Sensory Memory, Temporal Lobe
8 Feb 2018
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S. f. could remember 80 digits in a row after 20 months of practice and had large amounts of practice on his memory-span or digit-span due to his active processing. The short-term store is known as working memory. Memory provides the basis for adapting to our environments. It serves as a work-space where we can carry out moment-to-moment cognitive activities. Basic processes in memory: s. f. "s method for remembering. S. f. provided verbal protocols where he would speak out loud about his cognitive processes as he remembered the strings of digits. Ericcson discovered that s. f. would encode/process groups into single units/chunks and he developed a method for retrieving the chunks from memory. He encoded strings such as 3492 as 3 minutes and 4. 92 seconds. He chunked these digits to make sense of them. We can reduce 15 letters to 5 chunks, making them easier to remember.
