COGS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Graham Hitch, Alan Baddeley, Social Cognition
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Cogs 100 - introduction to cognitive science - lecture 30: memory and social cognition. Has a limited capacity less than iconic memory, can only hold a small number of items. Capacity can be increased by chunking (limit 7+-2) Rehearsal - duration can be increased by repeating items. In 1974, alan baddeley and graham hitch proposed their model of working memory, which consists of the central executive, visuospatial sketchpad and phonological loop as a method of encoding. Implicit or procedural memory holds knowledge for skills such as riding a bike. It demonstrated by doing and occurs without conscious recall. Explicit or declarative memory holds memory for facts or events. It is demonstrated by saying and occurs with conscious recall. Endel tulving (1970s) first proposed two distinct kinds of long-term memory, episodic and semantic memory. Semantic memory factual knowledge and can be organized hierarchically. Washington was the first president of the united states.