PSYC 2450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hard Disk Drive, Willi Hennig, Long-Term Memory
15 Dec 2016
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Ram - random access memory, when you haven"t saved something, the document is sitting in your ram. Cps - basic brain, really good fast brains (i7 computer vs. pentium) vs. a little bit slower brains. Hdd - hard disk drive, some store more than others. long term memory. short term memory (working memory). Processing speed - how fast your computer runs based on the crystal that is inside. Chapter 8 link - neo piagetian theory case. Information flow (how a computer works, therefore we are like a serial computer) Other cognitive skills (each of us has a basic hardware. Outline the basic components of the information processing model and briefly explain how it works (attention, working memory, long term memory, executive functioning) Short term memory (working memory): you can only have so much information in your working memory at a time.
