PSY 654 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Interference Theory, Anterograde Amnesia, Retrograde Amnesia
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Theory that 2 slave system" are responsible for short-term maintenance of information and a. 1 slave system is the phonological loop and the other one is the visuo-spatial sketchpad. Psy270 lecture 5 + chapter 6(pg 148-154) & chapter 7. Recap of memory system: things we did not cover. It is a separate, limited short-term memory storage component for visual/spatial information. Part of the working memory that holds and processes visual and spatial information. Children demonstrate a visual similarity effect ( analogous to rhyming effect) while adults demonstrate a visual similarity effect under articulatory suppression. This is the control centre for wm- this is where the processing goes on. Accesses and coordinate information from slave system central executive is responsible for the supervision of information integration and for coordinating the slave system. An important function for ce is regulating relevant and irrelevant information. People with high working memory capacity are better able to inhibit irrelevant information.
