PSY 452 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Procedural Memory, Sketchpad, Working Memory
Document Summary
Psychologists often divide memory into 2 basic categories: Chapter 5: long-term memory: working memory: the brief immediate memory for material we are currently processing. Long-term memory: high capacity storage system that contains our memories from experiences and information that you have accumulated throughout your lifetime. Working memory is fragile: the information can disappear from memory after less than a minute, the capacity is limited. Long-term: high capacity, retain material for many decades, ex. (bahrick 1975) subjects able to recognize high school yearbook photos after 15 years after graduation. Episodic memory: memories for events that happened to you personally. Semantic memory: organized knowledge about the world, including your knowledge about words and other factual information. Information processing of working memory: phonological loop: processing buffer that allows for the simultaneous processing and storage of sound-based or linguistic information, visuospatial sketchpad: processing visual and spatial information. Procedural memory: your knowledge about how to do something.
