PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Short-Term Memory, Long-Term Memory, Sensory Memory
14 Sep 2016
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Information processing in older children: working memory capacity and efficiency, development and strategy use, role of knowledge. Sensory memory: is where information is held very briefly in raw, unanalyzed form (no longer than a few seconds) Working memory: is the site of ongoing cognitive ability. Long-term memory: is a limitless, permanent storehouse of knowledge of the world; information is rarely forgotten, though it is sometimes hard to access. Memory may be present at birth, but weak: habituation/dishabituation, classical conditioning (blass et al, 1984) Stroking the babies forehead and then giving them sugar water. Then when the forehead is stroked the infant expects sugar water. To evoke this response, stroke the forehead but do not give the infants sugar water. Memory improves with age: mobile studies (rovee-collier) 2 months old can remember the kicking training for about 3 days. 3 months old can remember the kicking training for about 8 days.
