PSYC 3506 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Elementary Arithmetic, Memory Span, Information Processing
22 Jul 2020
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Information processing (ip) is a general model of human cognition (cognitive psychology) The idea that there"s input and output. Information is seen as being processed in a particular way (multistore model (different storage systems); serial processing (info goes from one system to another)) Capacity (memory span) of short-term memory and working memory. Working memory holds and processes information at the same time. Say the numbers and repeat them back in the same order. Say the numbers and repeat them backwards. Younger kids (4yrs) can barely manage 2 numbers. Lily pad task (modified corsi span task) There"s a frog jumping from lilypad to lilypad. When frog jumps on a pad, it lights up. Kids try and memorize the order of the frog jumps. Whatever the highest chain they achieve (4 in a row) they are credited with having a working memory of 4.
