PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Working Memory, Texas State Highway Loop 1
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Maintenance rehearsal: we can extend info. by rehearsing/repeating it (saying it out loud). Elaborative rehearsal: focus on meaning or relate information to other things you already know. Other ways of extending stm memory: mnemonic devices. Acronyms: combine one or more letters (usually the first letter) from each piece of information you wish to remember. For example, many students learn the acronyms homes and roy: biv to help remember the names of the five great lakes of. Revision of short term memory as working memory. Working memory: active maintenance of information in short- term storage. A mental workspace that actively and simultaneously processes different types of information and supports other cognitive functions like problem-solving, planning, and interacts with ltm. Central executive: decides what working memory pays attention to. Visual-spatial pad: stores and processes information in a visual or spatial form where you are in relation to other objects.
