PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Countertop, Long-Term Memory, Psycholinguistics
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Memory is reconstructive in nature and is adaptive. Working memory: consciously holding information in mind and manipulating it. Mental task hold things in the mind, complicated question. Efficiency of the information not how much but how efficient. Limited holding space where you can activate and use information in your memory. Implication on intelligence: intelligence is not function of how much you can hold in, but the ability to zoom in on relevant information and make it relevant to you. The two are not in direct competition, holding capacity is possible to be relevance filter. Impossible for the holding capacity to exist alone though. Fluid (g): aspect of intelligence relies on age. We are less intelligent when we get older. Standard reading task (younger people reads faster and less prone to distraction) Kinds of test been giving people young adults do better than older people in well- defined problem.
