PS102 Chapter 7: Chapter 7.docx
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Initial models: early selection (broadbent, 1958, bottleneck occurs at or prior to the stage of perceptual analysis, late selection (deutsch & deutsch, 1963, bottleneck occurs at or prior to the stage of response selection. Includes sound confusion instead of word confusion: short term memory, coded based on sound. 30 second duration: capacity of 7 2, chunking. 1: the information is only going to stay in working memory as long as you are consciously processing it, long term memory. 1: capacity is believed to be unlimited / permanent, encoding, putting information into a form that the memory system can use. Interaction between stm & ltm: group information into larger units. 2: area of expertise will determine how good you are at chunking. 4: allows us to process information because we"re grouping it together, the more we know about something, the larger the chunks get.
