PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Retrograde Amnesia, Baddeley'S Model Of Working Memory, Anterograde Amnesia

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO104
• Professor: Clayton Dickson

Document Summary

Typically, there are four ways information is stored in stm/wm: Errors can result if you try to store too much information in one system too quickly. Answer: we have systems that allow us to increase the capacity and storage duration of stm. Elaborative: think about the meaning of the items and relate them to other things. Takes more effort, you have to actually think about the items. A limited-capacity system for temporary storage and manipulation of information for complex tasks such as comprehension, learning, and reasoning. Stm is a single component; wm consists of multiple parts. Stm is mainly concerned with storing information; wm is concerned with manipulating information. Baddeley created one of the main models for how working memory accomplishes the manipulation of information. Long-term memory (ltm): archive of information about past events and knowledge learned. Anterograde amnesia: loss of ability to assimilate and retain new knowledge.