PSYC 2450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Synaptic Pruning, Memory Span, Video Lesson

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2450
• Professor: Karl Hennig

Document Summary

Psyc 2450 cognitive development: info processing: identify the 3 basic components (wm, ltm, executive functioning) and 3 basic processes (attention, storage, retrieval) of the information processing system. Briefly explain how the system works beginning with the environmental input that is (briefly) sits in the sensory store, that is, describe a possible pathway. The information processing system begins with environmental input where, a lecture video for example, feeds into the sensory store. One is aware that this stimulus is being presented and by attending to it and paying attention to the video, the process of attention, it can move into one"s working memory. In working memory, however, this information will only be held temporarily proving inefficient for exam purposes. To move the video from short term to long term memory, various memory strategies may be used to aid in the storage process.